As 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates advocate having American taxpayers provide free health care for illegal aliens, U.S. citizens are already paying billions every year for the expenditure.
During the second night of debates for the 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates, every Democrat — including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg — said they supported having American taxpayers pay for free health care for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the country.
The latest research by Chris Conover from the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University reveals that every year, American taxpayers pay nearly $20 billion for healthcare for illegal aliens.
Conover wrote the analysis in Forbes:
Current federal policy is to prohibit federal tax funding of health care to unauthorized immigrants through either Medicaid or Obamacare. Nevertheless, 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. [Emphasis added]
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. [Emphasis added]
All told, Americans cross-subsidize health care for unauthorized immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year. Of this total, federal taxpayers provided $11.2 billion in subsidized care to unauthorized immigrants in 2016. [Emphasis added]
Trump trial: Jury selection to resume in New York City for 3rd day in former president’s trial
Blue states band together to challenge GOP-led voting map they say harms ‘minority voting strength’
Poll Reveals Highest Rate of ‘Scripture Disengaged’ Americans: ‘It’s Time to Take Discipleship Seriously’
‘Cry Out for America’: Prayer Rallies Take Place in State Capitols
DC Mayor’s taxpayer-funded trip to ritzy The Masters golf tourney called an ‘economic development visit’
‘Squad’ Democrat promotes ‘peace’ in Middle East as hometown ranks among worst for crime
Arizona Republicans Stand Firm, Keep 1864 Abortion Ban in Place, Handing Pro-Choice Democrats Big Loss
Red Lobster May File for Bankruptcy as Labor Costs Skyrocket: Report
Biden claims uncle vanished after crashing in area of New Guinea with cannibals; military has different story
Federal Reserve’s Latest Announcement Delivers Killer Blow to Biden’s Re-Election
Biden’s America: Praying Pro-Lifers May Face More Prison Time Than Pro-Abortion Fire-Bomber
Biden Gets Involved in Caitlin Clark’s Salary Controversy After WNBA Draft – ‘Push New Boundaries’
WNBA Star Who Said ‘Reality Is Coming’ for Caitlin Clark Has Record Shattered by Her on Draft Night
Alabama lawmakers advance bills ensuring Biden appears on November ballot
Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94
Analysis conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that American taxpayers are forced to federally subsidize about $17.14 billion every year in free medical coverage for illegal aliens and about $12.17 billion in state medical costs for illegal aliens.
On the federal level, Americans pay about $1.2 billion for illegal alien births through Medicaid, about $3.4 billion for annual Medicaid fraud by illegal aliens, and about $4.2 billion for Medicaid births by the U.S-born children of illegal aliens.
Every year, Americans are forced to pay about $116 billion in total expenses for the millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S.
Story cited here.
Scroll down to leave a comment:
