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Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:39 pm

That’s the argument that the Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian makes in his latest post at the National Review.

Obviously the Obamacare proposal is an abomination and Congress needs to throw it out and start from scratch. But whatever they come up with, the lesson for immigration is unchanged — in an era when we have massive transfers of taxpayer funds to the poor, whether through Medicaid or food stamps or public-education funding or whatever, you just can’t keep importing more and more poor people. The libertarians will say the answer is to abolish all of these taxpayer-funded programs; but even if that’s true, until we do abolish them, ongoing mass immigration is simply unjustifiable.

Anticipating the argument, the Immigration Policy Center has already put together its defense for why immigrants are NOT a drag on government-supported health care.

Yesterday, the center issued its own fact sheet showing that:  U.S. citizens make up more than three-quarters of the uninsured; immigrants incur significantly fewer health care costs than the rest of the population because they tend to be younger and healthier; and legalizing immigrants will add to the number of healthy, working-age people paying into Medicaid, Medicare and any new government-supported health care programs and thus reduce the burden on the rest of U.S. taxpayers.

Expect this debate to heat up in the months to come.

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Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 12:14 am

1.) One quarter of 47 million uninsured is a lot of people
2.) There are no citizenship barriers to recieving government healthcare under the Obama plan for illegals. It would be yet another magnet drawing millions of more illegals to the US for us to support at a time when we are already bankrupts.
3.) If legalized, the illegals would be able to bring their elderly parents and even grandparents here for the “free” healthcare under chain migration. This would negate the point about them paying into Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, most would not make enough money to pay appreciably into these funds anyways. One legalized worker with five dependents is a net drain, not a net gain, for the taxpayers, and many have many more dependents than five.
4.) Benefits to elderly native-born Americans who have paid into Medicare and Medicaid all their working lives would be cut, so that illegals who never paid into those funds at all could benefit.
5.) They may be younger but they are not healthier. They are bringing Third World diseases here for Americans to “cure” — diseases that were eradicated in the US decades ago. Many also have violent lifestyles which result in injuries like knife and gunshot wounds that we will have to “cure” as well.

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1.) One quarter of 47 million uninsured is a lot of people
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