OMAHA, June 15 (UPI) — Undocumented immigrants have lower healthcare expenditures than legal residents, naturalized citizens and people born in the United States, researchers say.
Jim P. Stimpson, Fernando A. Wilson and Dejun Su of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha found undocumented immigrants and other immigrants who lived in the United States for less than five years have few options for accessing healthcare through public programs.
“In light of the ongoing national debate about immigration reform and the impact of the Affordable Care Act on immigrants, we examined differences in healthcare spending by place of birth and legal status using Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data for the period 2000-09,” the researchers wrote in the study.
“We found that unauthorized, legal and naturalized immigrants together accounted for $96.5 billion in average annual healthcare spending, compared to slightly more than $1 trillion for people in the United States. Unauthorized immigrants accounted for $15.4 billion of that total, or 15.9 percent.”
The study, published in Health Affairs, found 7.9 percent of undocumented immigrants had healthcare spending from public sources averaging $140 per person per year. By contrast, 30.1 percent of people born in the United States had healthcare spending from public sources for an average of $1,385 per person per year.
Average emergency department expenditures for undocumented immigrants were $54 per year, compared to $138 per year for people born in the United States, the study said.
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
6 thoughts on “Illegal aliens average $140/person/yr. public healthcare”
I’m happy to pay $140 for insurance, helping people out. U wack jobs talking obama care. It our new heath care! Get over it. Better than bushes dumbass. If you want something to complain about. How about the lazy Americans that don’t even look for wok.
But that’s obama’s fault too!
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Dang, at first I thought WTF, and then this….”How about the lazy Americans that don’t even look for wok.
But that’s obama’s fault too!”
Damn straight!!!
Excellent comment!!!
@My Voice-and there you have it. The Liberals attitude that is tearing the U.S. apart.
This is a total lie. 70% of the babies born in Austin Texas are born to women that are Illegal. At a cost of $120 million a year to taxpayers and hospitals. Plus there proably not including there trips to the emergency wards where they get help free. More Rubio propaganda.
Grab your ankles again, when the make these people leagal to be here and take them “out of the shadows,” an employer can hire them and not have to pay for health care under the Obamacare law.
Who is the employer going to hire first? Someone that they are forced to buy health insurance for or an new undocumented leagal worker?
So does this mean that legal, voting, citizens of the US are paying to much for healthcare….