Title: Illegal Immigrants Account for $10.7 Billion of Nation’s Health Care Costs, Data Show | CNSNews
Headings: Illegal Immigrants Account for $10.7 Billion of Nation’s Health Care Costs, Data Show
Illegal Immigrants Account for $10.7 Billion of Nation’s Health Care Costs, Data Show
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Content: Martin’s figures are similar to those reported in a 2004 study published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which showed that illegals accounted for $6.4 billion of federal health care spending – the CIS study did not examine states expenditures. The CIS study did include federal programs for which illegal immigrants are legally barred, such as Medicaid. However, federal funds still flowed their way due to the fact that illegal immigrant parents gain access to federal welfare and health care benefits through their U.S.-born children. According to the CIS study, illegals accounted for 13.1 percent of all federal costs of covering the uninsured in 2004, an estimated $2.2 billion per year. Seventeen percent of households headed by an illegal immigrant were using Medicaid, accounting for 1.7 percent of all Medicaid recipients. These trends look to continue if President Obama gets his way on health care reform, Martin said, because the legislation currently making its way through Congress would leave “very large” loopholes, loopholes that are not likely to be closed. “The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said. “There’s one provision that says they won’t be eligible, but the current legislation as it’s being written does not establish any system of verification as to whether or not a person is legal or illegal.” CNSNews Reader,
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