2013-05-29 Bloomberg: Immigrants Provide $115 Billion to U.S. Medicare Program

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Bloomberg uutisoi:

Immigrants to the U.S. contributed $115.2 billion more to the Medicare Trust Fund during the past decade than they withdrew, casting doubt on criticism they overburden the health plan, Harvard University researchers said.

The data, published in the journal Health Affairs, suggest immigrants, mainly those without U.S. citizenship, help subsidize the nation's health program for the elderly and disabled. While American-born citizens took $30.9 billion out of Medicare in 2009 alone, immigrants provided a surplus of $13.8 billion that year. The study looked at data from 2002 to 2009.

"Immigrants generate a surplus for Medicare primarily because so many of them are working-age adults," said the researchers led by Leah Zallman, from Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Cambridge Health Alliance. "That group has a high labor-force participation rate -- a combination that generates large payroll tax payments."

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Ann Coulterin analyysia Heritage Foundationin raportista.

Tällä hetkellä yksi laiton siirtolainen aiheuttaa veronmaksajille keskimäärin hieman runsaat 14 000 taalan tappiot.

Maltillisen arvion mukaan laittomia on n 11 500 000 kpl.

The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio's plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the nation's budget deficits over the next 50 years. Heritage assumed there are 11.5 million illegals, but other estimates put the number at 33 million, which would mean adding another $18 trillion to the deficit. To put that in perspective, the largest U.S. budget deficit in history was $1.4 trillion in 2009.

Currently, the average illegal alien gets about $24,721 in taxpayer-funded benefits and pays about $10,334 in taxes. After full legalization, they will be eligible for a whole new panoply of government benefits such as direct welfare payments, Obamacare, Social Security and Medicare. Heritage concludes that the total government benefits to these former illegal aliens will then rise to about $43,900 per household, while the taxes paid by them will increase only modestly to around $16,000.

Rubio says Heritage's report is all wrong because it fails to use "dynamic scoring."

The sentence ends there. It's like when Obama responds to questions about Benghazi by saying it's a "political circus," or liberals say their position on abortion is that "it's a complex issue."