How American Citizens Finance $18.5 Billion In Health Care For Unauthorized Immigrants
FEB 26, 2018 @ 05:06 PM
Chris Conover , Contributor
All told, Americans cross-subsidize health care for unauthorized immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year
federal taxpayers provided $11.2 billion in subsidized care to unauthorized immigrants in 2016
I recently did an interesting interview with Dan Gorenstein, a health care reporter with station WHYY and NPR's radio business show Marketplace on the issue of tax-financed health care for unauthorized immigrants [1]. The piece that aired did not include any of my remarks, but I thought it would be useful to give readers my perspective on this knotty policy question based on both background research I did to prepare for the interview and follow-on research I did in light of the questions posed in the interview.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot.../#61d80b9e12c4
