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Isn't the US taxpayer charitable since 42% of medicaid costs is given to immigrants through Obamacare?
Immigrant Families Benefit Significantly from Obamacare
Accounted for 42% of Medicaid growth since 2011
The number of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) on Medicaid grew twice as fast as the number of natives and their children on Medicaid from 2011 to 2013 — 11 percent vs. 5 percent.
Immigrants and their children accounted for 42 percent of Medicaid enrollment growth from 2011 to 2013, even though they accounted for only 17 percent of the nation’s total population and 23 percent of overall U.S. population growth over this time period.
About two-thirds of the growth in Medicaid associated with immigrants was among immigrants themselves, rather than the U.S.-born children of immigrants.4
The increase in Medicaid enrollment among immigrants and their children can be roughly estimated as costing $4.6 billion annually.5
Accounted for 42% of Medicaid growth since 2011
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- Damon LyonLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
That says that 42% of growth over a two year period was immigrants. Legal immigrants comprising nearly half the growth cannot be misinterpreted to mean that 42% of medicaid goes to legal immigrants.
It can be interpreted to mean that 58% of growth for that same two year period was current citizens.
- Brother HesekielLv 77 years ago
The ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare, is available to all US citizens -- regardless of whether they are natural-born or naturalized -- and all Green Card holders. I'm certainly no dummy, even though I'm an immigrant, but I fail to understand how you can twist this into a charity issue.
Pre-ACA my monthly health care premium was $1,681 for myself, and $1,132 for my wife, who isn't an immigrant. Now I pay only $1,278 for my entire family, because health care providers are no longer allowed to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. And that is a reason why the US taxpayers' income taxes, which include my own, should be a charitable expense? Really? I don't think you have thought that through.
Source(s): An immigrant from Europe, I now live on the American Rivera in the charming old mission town San Buenaventura and work as an attorney in Santa Barbara, Calif.
