Free Health Care For Criminal Illegal Aliens
By Greg L | 7 August 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Crime | 6 Comments

If we didn’t have illegal aliens committing crimes and getting themselves incarcerated in our Adult Detention Center, would county taxpayers end up bearing a lesser burden in publicly-funded health care costs? Although the MJM article today: http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/loca ... ted/19513/ didn’t mention just how much of the $800,000 in increased costs can be attributed to providing free health care services to incarcerated illegal aliens, I would imagine the answer would be affirmative.

[quote]“Throughout the year we did see adult medical costs and pharmaceuticals for illegal immigrants that were in our system. The one thing that did run the costs up was the transportation costs … to move inmates to other facilities,â€