-born children were on medicaid weekd.n combine that with the share that are uninsured and figure two in does that. what it shows is that 47.6% of immigrants and their u.s.-born children were either uninsured or on medicaid. that means that almost half of the immigrants and their children have no health insurance or have it provided to them by the government. they bought him shows that about 25% to about 1/4%. why are so many lacking? the large share without health insurance is partly explained by the large share to have a very the levels of education. about 1/3 of all immigrants did not complete high school in their home country. that means of a typically work at jobs that do not provide insurance and it often cannot afford on their own. among illegal immigrants, we estimate that about 55% to the graduate from high school. we can see the importance of emigration to this question by looking at statistics. if we look at college educated immigrants, 15% are uninsured. immigrants to do not graduate high school, half are unins