How American Citizens Finance $18.5 Billion In Health Care For Illegal Aliens
... Current federal policy is to prohibit federal tax funding of health care to undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] through either Medicaid or Obamacare. Nevertheless, rough estimates suggest that the nation's 3.9 million uninsured [illegal] immigrants who are undocumented likely receive about $4.6 billion in health services paid for by federal taxes, $2.8 billion in health services financed by state and local taxpayers, another $3.0 bankrolled through "cost-shifting" i.e., higher payments by insured patients to cover hospital uncompensated care losses, and roughly $1.5 billion in physician charity care. In addition to these amounts, illegal immigrants likely benefit from at least $0.9 billion in implicit federal subsidies due to the tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals and another $5.7 billion in tax expenditures from the employer tax exclusion.
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