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Immigration and healthcare

Providing Healthcare to illegals would add billions of dollars to nation’s medical tab

By Steven A. Camarota
Monday, October 5, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Immigration and healthcare are not only two of the most contentious issues we face, they are very much related.

If we look at illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children, they account for one in six people without health insurance in America. If we actually enforced our immigration laws and encouraged more illegal immigrants to return home, we could significantly reduce the size of the uninsured population, save taxpayers money, and free up healthcare dollars for legal immigrants and native-born Americans who need care.

Most estimates show that some 60 percent of illegal immigrants do not have health insurance. The underlying reason illegal immigrants don’t have insurance is their much lower average level of education. Research indicates that 80 percent of illegal immigrants have no more than a high school education. These “less-educatedâ€

Why are illegals getting anything from the Ameican tax payers?

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If the gov't wants to save us money, enforce our immigration laws and don't give them Amnesty.

We must reform the EMTLA to exclude illegal aliens from medical care. Pregnancy should NOT be covered under emergency care. Stabilize all emergency cases and deport immediately.

Make no mistake about it, one of the biggest reasons illegal aliens risk the journey here is to pop out as many anchor babies as they can. ALL at taxpayers expense. These children are moneymakers for the illegal alien parents via WIC, Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, et al. The illegals make more money from these freebies than they ever would in unreported wages. Take that away and the birth rate WILL drop.