Aliens with Healthare
Sharon Marve
English 1102
Andrew Cutcher
2/7/2011
Argumentative Essay
Alien Health Care
The impact of illegal immigrants on health care economics in the United States is a high cost to the government due to the large amount of illegal immigrants on Medicaid. Providing health care to illegal immigrants is an important component that negatively affects the cost of health care insurance for the citizens of the United States. This is an issue that the United States government must address. The affect of illegal immigrants on health care economics in the United States and the impact they have on our country goes in many directions and it affects many areas of the economy. The controversy of whether illegal aliens should be allowed to become legal and live in the United States, receive free government health insurance and other state benefits, and how the new health reform should affect these illegal immigrants is the number one health care problem today. The research article on www.usillegalaliens.com looked at the cost of health care expenditures for immigrants compared to United States born citizens. The assumption at the beginning of the article is that immigrants are putting an increased burden on the health care system in the United States. The data was collected on a national basis using a computer-based survey. Following the analysis of the data collected in the research study, it was concluded that the citizens make up a larger amount of the health care expenditures compared to the immigrants. It was concluded that the total of the United States health care expenditures were made up of 7.9% for immigrants and 90% for the citizens.
One factor that plays into the lower expenditures for immigrants is that the immigrants have decreased access to health care insurance, which also decreases the use of health care services. Immigrants are required to wait five years after entering the
English 1102
Andrew Cutcher
2/7/2011
Argumentative Essay
Alien Health Care
The impact of illegal immigrants on health care economics in the United States is a high cost to the government due to the large amount of illegal immigrants on Medicaid. Providing health care to illegal immigrants is an important component that negatively affects the cost of health care insurance for the citizens of the United States. This is an issue that the United States government must address. The affect of illegal immigrants on health care economics in the United States and the impact they have on our country goes in many directions and it affects many areas of the economy. The controversy of whether illegal aliens should be allowed to become legal and live in the United States, receive free government health insurance and other state benefits, and how the new health reform should affect these illegal immigrants is the number one health care problem today. The research article on www.usillegalaliens.com looked at the cost of health care expenditures for immigrants compared to United States born citizens. The assumption at the beginning of the article is that immigrants are putting an increased burden on the health care system in the United States. The data was collected on a national basis using a computer-based survey. Following the analysis of the data collected in the research study, it was concluded that the citizens make up a larger amount of the health care expenditures compared to the immigrants. It was concluded that the total of the United States health care expenditures were made up of 7.9% for immigrants and 90% for the citizens.
One factor that plays into the lower expenditures for immigrants is that the immigrants have decreased access to health care insurance, which also decreases the use of health care services. Immigrants are required to wait five years after entering the
Cited: Carter, R. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration, Immigration Facts”, Figures and Addendum. November 16, 2009. <http://www.usillegalaliens.com/ immigration> Glueck, M.D., M