This article appears to focus on legal immigrants, and I don't think anyone really has much of a problem with legal immigration since we are a nation on immigrants.
People who complain about 'not paying a fair share' usually are talking about immigrants who are in the country illegally (which this report doesn't seem to be about). -Cameron On May 30, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/health/immigrants-give-more-to-medicare-than-they-receive-a-study-finds.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 > > "Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent > years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new > study, a pattern that goes against the notion that immigrants are a drain > on federal health care spending." > > "The > study<http://content.healthaffairs.org/lookup/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1223>, > led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, measured immigrantsâ > contributions to the part of Medicare that pays for hospital care, a trust > fund that accounts for nearly half of the federal programâs revenue. It > found that immigrants generated surpluses totaling $115 billion from 2002 > to 2009. In comparison, the American-born population incurred a deficit of > $28 billion over the same period." > > Lies are slowly exposed, why wasn't this study done a long time ago. > > Anyways...cue the GOP fanatics saying the study was liberally biased etc. > etc. etc. without actually addressing the substance in 3...2....1... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364002 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
