The economic case for insuring undocumented immigrants.
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¡Salud, Amigo!One of President Obama's favorite arguments for health care reform has been economic: If it saves money, do it. Except when it comes to covering undocumented immigrants.
The case for insuring illegals is simple. Society already pays the price for treating them. But it pays in the least efficient way. When someone who doesn't have insurance shows up at a hospital with a bronchial infection, doctors are required by federal law to treat him or her. The hospital then passes on those costs to the rest of us in the form of higher prices for other patients, which leads to higher insurance premiums and, in the cases of Medicaid and Medicare, higher taxes. Better to insure those patients so that they can go to a doctor at the first signs of illness—not when they start coughing up blood.
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GummyLife
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ehhh..its just not fair.
We should just go ahead and make them all legal so that they have to pay taxes and carry the burden with the rest of us rather than making it heavier... - 6 months ago
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