Patients without passports: challenges of caring for the undocumented

2016-09-28

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Hospitals and clinics and safety-net organizations across the U.S. are increasingly challenged to provide medically appropriate care to undocumented and uninsured immigrants. These "patients without passports" do not qualify for public benefits that finance health care for low income persons and often lack other means to secure care for themselves and their families. In this Medical Center Hour, Nancy Berlinger, co-director of The Hastings Center’s Undocumented Patients project, explores the ethical and practical dimensions of health care access for this cohort of immigrants, drawing on data from Virginia and other states and on her work with New York City policymakers to improve health care access for vulnerable populations. UVA emergency medicine physician David Burt offers a local perspective.

A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life

Berlinger, Nancy (Speaker); Burt, David R. (Speaker); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Illegal aliens; Medical care; Medical policy

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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