Sunday, February 17, 2013

$2 billion spent each year on Medicaid emergencies mostly goes for illegal immigrants

Even though federal law largely bars illegal immigrants from obtaining Medicaid coverage, the program annually pays out more than $2 billion in free emergency coverage that mostly goes to illegal immigrants, according to Kaiser Health News. 
The vast majority of the total emergency care reimbursements cover delivering babies, Kaiser reports. 
Based on a Kaiser data analysis of the states believed to have the greatest populations of illegal immigrants — including California, New York, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Illinois and Florida — more than 100,000 people annually receive emergency care that is reimbursed by Medicaid. 
California, Kaiser’s analysis showed, receives approximately half of the annual $2 billion Medicaid expenditure category.
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