Sunday, March 14, 2010

Trends in Healthcare Spending For Immigrants in the United States

The suspected burden that undocumented immigrants may place on the U.S. healthcare system has been a flashpoint in healthcare and immigration reform debates. An examination of of healthcare spending during 1999-2006 for adult naturalized citizens and immigrant noncitizens (which includes some undocumented immigrants) finds that the cost of providing care to U.S. natives and that immigrants is lower than that of providing care to U.S. natives...

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/hlthaff.2009.0400v1

Posted by: Maricela Gutierrez

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