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Free Health Care for Illegals, Paid for by You

From a different county? Get out. A different country? Welcome!

by Brendan Kirby

If you are poor and uninsured in Maryland’s largest county, there is a health clinic that will treat your stomach ache — even if you broke
immigration laws to come to America.

Don’t try sneaking into one of Montgomery County’s 34 clinics if you are an American citizen from neighboring Frederick County, however.
The low-income health program is for Montgomery residents only — and administrators require patients to produce one of nine different
forms of identification as proof of address.

That bit of irony is not uncommon. According to a survey by the Wall Street Journal, 20 of the 25 U.S. counties with the largest populations
of illegal immigrants do not consider legal status when assessing eligibility for subsidized health care. But most enforce residency requirements.

“A veteran who can’t quite meet the residence requirement is out of luck,” said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Washington-based
Center for Immigration Studies. “But if you’re not even supposed to be in the country, that’s OK.”

It is one of the many examples of illegal immigrants getting subsidized and even free medical care despite their status as illegal immigrants.
Sometimes, it is the result of fraud or bureaucratic incompetence. In February, a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
report estimated that the government had spent more than $750 million as of June 2015 on tax credits for people who could not verify their
citizenship or legal immigration status.



In other instances, illegal immigrants receive health benefits because local governments allow them to participate in county-run programs. That is
the case in the 20 large-county health programs surveyed by the Journal.

In either case, taxpayers provide health care to people who are technically not allowed to even be living in the country. Camarota said the impact
is as certain as the laws of economics: Either citizens pay higher taxes to cover the additional recipients or there is less medical care available for
those citizens.

"It’s not free. It’s not consequence-free," he said. "Either you accept the cost or you make them go home."

The numbers can be staggering. The Wall Street Journal estimated that the cost of providing non-emergency care to at least 750,000 illegal
immigrants in 20 counties cost more than $1 billion a year. In Los Angeles County, which has the nation’s largest illegal immigrant population,
135,000 illegal immigrants received care. In Harris County, Texas, the number is 65,000. In Queens County, New York, it is 71,000.

Proponents argue that offering medical services to illegal immigrants saves money in the long run because health services can be provided much
more cheaply than in emergency rooms, which are required under federal law to stabilize patients regardless of legal status or ability to pay.

Camarota said there may be good arguments to treat illegal immigrants. For instance, it might be in the public interest to control communicable
diseases. But he questioned cost savings as a rationale.

"The research shows that the more health insurance you offer people, not surprisingly, the more health care they use," he said.

So while it is true that treating a minor illness at a clinic is, indeed, cheaper than treating a full-blown medical emergency in a hospital, the reality
is that in many cases, people without insurance simply do without treatment and get better on their own. Camarota said it may well be cheaper
overall to treat a smaller number of comparatively costly hospital visits than a much larger number of comparatively cheaper clinic visits.

Previous research by the Center for Immigration Studies indicted that immigrant households are heavy users of government-assistance programs,
even though immigrants mostly are ineligible for such assistance. The reason is that U.S.-born children are eligible for those programs. In 2012,
for instance, 51 of households headed by an illegal immigrant had someone in Medicaid. That was more than double the rate of households headed
by native-born Americans.

"If you let illegal aliens stay, there is a cascading series of problems that’s only going to be solved by making them go home," Camarota said.

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Local Officials Using State Funds To Provide Healthcare To Illegal Aliens

Tue, Mar 29^th 2016 @ 12:37 am EDT


A new Wall Street Journal Survey showed that 20 out of the 25 counties in the U.S. with the highest levels of illegal aliens are using state funds to provide healthcare for local illegal aliens. Participants in these programs, regardless of immigration status, receive healthcare services such as doctor visits, shots, prescription drugs, lab tests and surgeries for free or at an extremely reduced cost paid for by the local taxpayers.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that around one-quarter of the approximately 30 million uninsured people in the U.S. are illegal aliens and federal policies have prohibited illegal aliens from using the Affordable Care Act to obtain healthcare due to the high costs.


For all 20 counties that were part of the survey it cost them a total of over $1 billion a year to provide nonemergency care for at least 750,000 illegal aliens. The majority of these bills were paid for from the local funds of those communities.


Andreas Borgeas, a member of the board of supervisors in Fresno County, CA, said that providing illegal aliens with healthcare has “created an ongoing entitlement that’s going to be difficult to sustain.”


Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education estimates that California will have around 1.5 million adult immigrants in 2019 and to provide Medicaid alone to these who meet the program’s low-income criteria would cost the state $400 million more a year.


This subject has been a huge part of the 2016 presidential debate with Republican candidate’s Ted Cruz and Donald Trump saying they would continue the federal policies of not allowing illegal aliens to receive healthcare coverage while Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would like to offer illegal aliens healthcare coverage and eventually citizenship.

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/loca...illegal-aliens

Cut off ALL Federal Funding to sanctuary cities and States that are aiding and abetting illegal aliens!

Makes me sick!