The Lid: Illegal immigrants cost the U.S. billions a year in health care costs that the illegals never pay for, a Forbes Mag. report says. And that is even though federal law supposedly prohibits this spending.
Federal law claims that no federal dollars can go to pay for health care for illegals. Unfortunately, this is a smoke screen because literally BILLIONS of our tax dollars go to fund medical care for illegals anyway.
Forbes magazine’s Chris Conover recent ran the numbers and came up with at least $18.5 billion of our tax dollars wasted on health care for illegal immigrants.
Connor noted:
“rough estimates suggest that the nation’s 3.9 million uninsured immigrants who are unauthorized likely receive about $4.6 billion in health services paid for by federal taxes, $2.8 billion in health services financed by state and local taxpayers, another $3.0 bankrolled through “cost-shifting” i.e., higher payments by insured patients to cover hospital uncompensated care losses, and roughly $1.5 billion in physician charity care. In addition to these amounts, unauthorized immigrants likely benefit from at least $0.9 billion in implicit federal subsidies due to the tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals and another $5.7 billion in tax expenditures from the employer tax exclusion.”
“All told, Americans cross-subsidize health care for unauthorized immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year,” Connor said adding, “federal taxpayers provided $11.2 billion in subsidized care to unauthorized immigrants in 2016.” MORE HERE
And PDT wants $25 Billion to build the wall. Sounds like a winner to me.
But people can’t get health care in the US.
Please keep in mind this is a conservative figure. President Trump needs to stop this needless ouflow of Billions of dollars.
When I lived in CA back in 2007, it was, yearly, between 9- 14 million per year to keep up with illegal alien gubmint cheese, schooling, health care and prison stays. For California alone. And the Feds would only give them a few million the cover it. LOL. So they kept blaming the Feds for the crap reimbursements instead of oh I don’t know, stop funding illegal aliens.
Idiots.
that’s just Health Care costs …. doesn’t include WIC, cost of schooling, incarceration, food stamps, welfare, etc. …. PER YEAR!!!
The Wall only costs $25 billion …. just once!
A big savings for big business. The shlub taxpayers pick up that overhead. Isn’t that about right COCK Bros?
Why the hell is Forbes lowballing the estimate?
The amount of money the American taxpayers spend supporting illegal immigrants would eradicate homelessness is the U.S. So, who is more important, illegal immigrants or American citizens who desperately need help? There are over 500,000 homeless in America and 60,000 are veterans. How could this happen. Ask a Democrat!