Reuters on Illegal immigrants not U.S. healthcare burden:
Illegal Latino immigrants do not cause a drag on the U.S. health care system as some critics have contended and in fact get less care than Latinos in the country legally, researchers said on Monday.
Such immigrants tend not to have a regular doctor or other health-care provider yet do not visit emergency rooms — often a last resort in such cases — with any more frequency than Latinos born in the United States, according to the report from the University of California's School of Public Health.
Oops. Another "gotcha" argument from the closed-borders chicken littles, paleo-libertarians, and skin color collectivsts is disembowled by facts…
Relevant Links:
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2640739320071126
I hope this story gets wide distribution. One of the biggest gripes I’ve heard about illegal immigrants is that they are “stealing our health care benefits.”