The suspected burden that undocumented immigrants may
place on the U.S. health care system has been a flashpoint in health care
and immigration reform debates. An examination of health care
spending during 1999–2006 for adult naturalized citizens and immigrant
noncitizens (which includes some undocumented immigrants) finds that
the cost of providing health care to immigrants is lower than that of
providing care to U.S. natives and that immigrants are not contributing
disproportionately to high health care costs in public programs such as
Medicaid. However, noncitizen immigrants were found to be more likely
than U.S. natives to have a health care visit classified as uncompensated
care.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/hlthaff.2009.0400v1
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