February 14-19, 2013: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—International poll on undocumented immigrants and medicaid
(As you may know, some lawmakers have recentlyproposed changes to immigration laws that would allow those who are now livingand working in the US (United States) illegally to apply for provisional legalstatus.) If a law were passed allowing some undocumented immigrants to applyfor provisional legal status, do you think those who obtain this status shouldbe eligible to…enroll in the Medicaid program if their income is low enoughto qualify, or should they not be eligible for this benefit?
63% Should be eligible
33% Should not be eligible
4% Don’t know/Refused
Thinking again about the 2010 health carelaw…to the best of your knowledge, would you say the health care law does ordoes not…allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in the Medicaid program?
42% Yes, law does this
35% No, law does not do this
23% Don’t know/Refused
Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International,February 14 – February 19, 2013 and based on 1,209 telephone interviews.Sample: National adult. 602 respondents were interviewed on a landlinetelephone, and 607 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 321 who had nolandline telephone. [USPSRA.13HTPFEB.R06B]
FormalCitation
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, Feb, 2013. RetrievedMar-18-2013 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public OpinionResearch, University of Connecticut.http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html