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sorta not - 03-21-2010, 08:35 PM

let's bash the illegal immigrate for the United States health care system that cost the US taxpayer twice what health care systems cost in the E.U. and Canada?
Unless you have hit your head l8tly the latest piece of legislation that will be shoved down the US taxpayers throat was written by the US healthcare Industry itself - not the government. Health Care Industry has reported healthy profits before and during the hubris over the latest National Health Care Pkg. The Health Care Industry has doled out lots of cash and has an army of K street lawyers that descend on Washington like flys .
The total illegal immigrate population in the US hovers roughly at 7.9% of total population and does have a modest impact on healthcare services across the country. But with the knowlege that illegal immigrates use of these services have offsets due to illegal immigrates file and pay taxes. -

WSJ - Bloomberg / 2010

The IRS estimates that about 6 million unauthorized immigrants file individual income tax returns each year. Research reviewed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office indicates that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes. Undocumented workers are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security alone.

Early studies in California and in the Southwest and in the Southeast' on the impact of immigrate households on local and state resources-

Households headed by undocumented immigrants use less than half the amount of federal services that households headed by documented immigrants or citizens make use of.

Translation the US Health Care Industry makes money the old fashion way by 'denying service'. Trying to foist the mishap or how the US health care operates by putting the blame on immigrates does not pass muster - the EU has equal number if not more illegal immigrates and it's healthe care system delivers a superior service for half the cost of what US taxpayer pays USD.
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