Immigrants and Health Care - Who benefits?
Margie sent this excellent discussion about immigrants, the taxes they pay, and the care the do (or do not) receive in return, with additional comparison to overall insured’s VS uninsured’s costs to the system and taxpayers.
This article seems to indicate a Health care system fiscal surplus from the immigrant sector, which, if reports of social security pay-in vs pay-out to immigrants are true (and i havent seen strong evidence to the contrary) combine to make immigration an economically good thing. And thats not even considering the “Day without a Mexican” scenarios of labor, construction, textiles, and the like.
The comments are well worth reading, as well.
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/immigrants_and_.html
thanks margie!
August 22nd, 2005 at 7:25 pm
Hello, I like totally blogged about this a few months. Go look it up, Mr. Admin. It’s there. “Immigrants subsidizing our health care?” is the basic title.
He shoots, he scores!
August 22nd, 2005 at 9:33 pm
yeah! that silly Admin, he dont know nothin!
mr. re-post 2005
; )
November 24th, 2005 at 4:37 pm
It’s interesting to hear how immigrants affect health care. Great article very informative.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Don’t blame the health care authorities for not providing quality health care. In a way, they are working at their potential.