Immigrants contribute millions to Medicare

[Elley Mae]

The article says it includes both legal and illegal.

The kicker here is they are only mentioning MEDICARE! You nearly always have to be 65 or older to get Medicare.

What about Medicaid for the poor, uninsured and their children? The only mention that the "individuals" contribute more to Medicare than they use but are they (or are their children) receiving Medicaid which comes out of the same fund? Are they going to hospitals and emergency rooms as "uninsured" and undocumented and letting the hospital and the taxpayers fund their treatments?

The article is obviously carefully worded and very politically biased.

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It was not clear how much of the surplus was made up of earnings by immigrants in the country illegally, who are ineligible for most government programs.

The Census Bureau, whose data was used for the contributions portion of the study, says it attempts to count all immigrants, including those in the country illegally.

 

[RoseRed]

We will be reading lots of illegal immigrant propaganda until our liberals get their way and give amnesty to all 11 million illegals.

 

[EmmaliLucia]

I have to ask and I hope I don't sound snarky,

but are there actually people out there that won't believe anything a political party other than their own says?

I mean, I am personally not a Republican, and most of the Republicans I know are a little out there, but if they were to say something, and it was a study with solid facts. I would believe it.

I'm just wondering because there seems to be much hostility towards this study, even though there are solid facts to back it up.

 

[Elley Mae]

I don't see it as a worth while study, personally. It's all in the numbers, it has nothing to do with immigrants as far as I am concerned. IF the immigrants were not filling the jobs, others would be. As long as there are young folks taking the new jobs or new offers of a job the money will get to that account(medicare). I just don't see it as an immigrant topic. It was nothing more then a filler for an empty space in the page. jmo

 

[Reader]

We will be reading lots of illegal immigrant propaganda until our liberals get their way and give amnesty to all 11 million illegals.

That's funny...because it's the conservative Republicans who are pushing this recent bill for immigration reform which includes a form of amnesty for most undocumented immigrants:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/marco-rubio-immigration-reform_n_3418008.html