Title: PolitiFact | No, undocumented immigrants don't get Medicare for free
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Undocumented immigrants get Medicare for free.
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Content: While undocumented immigrants can get "emergency" Medicaid covering "very limited urgent/emergent services only," he said, there is no available Medicare program. "In fact," he said, "many pay into Medicare through taxes but don’t collect the benefit, thereby subsidizing the Medicare Trust Fund." The fund finances Medicare health services through payroll taxes, general tax revenue and premiums enrollees pay, according to the Tax Policy Center. Taylor pointed to a January 2016 article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that though "unauthorized immigrants seldom have access to public health insurance programs such as Medicare Part A," they have "prolonged the life of the Medicare Trust Fund." Sometimes the system is misused
There has been news coverage about undocumented immigrants benefiting from Medicare, but they shouldn’t have. The Obama administration in 2014 announced plans to remove undocumented immigrants from Medicare rolls. Though officials then said immigrants are generally ineligible to receive federal benefits if they’re in the United States illegally, the New York Times reported, "many illegal immigrants have received benefits because the Medicare agency did not update its rules or policies to carry out the restrictions imposed by Congress." The inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services said that Medicare had improperly paid tens of millions of dollars a year to hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and pharmacies that had provided services to illegal immigrants, according to the Times. In 2018, the Justice Department prosecuted an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of using another man’s identity to apply for and receive Social Security disability benefits and Medicare benefits. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison and ordered to pay the approximate $423,000 he stole in restitution.