It actually does include illegals. However, the study focuses only on medicare not medicaid or non-payment of emergency room visits. It states that they are too young to qualify. Eventually they will be old enough.
Here's the money quote: Its a yawner of a study, he said. Young people dont get Medicare. We dont need several Ph.D.s to tell us that. . On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 immigrants > > contributions to the part of Medicare that pays for hospital care, a > trust > > fund that accounts for nearly half of the federal programs 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:364005 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
