Report: 42 percent of new Medicaid signups are immigrants, their children

I'd say "good luck" since a lot of other places are more socialist, but with the caveat that they aren't just inviting everyone, they actually may be an improvement

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Yay for the US! Let's just invite everyone in and pay for their lifestyle!

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This really is one of the funny things about our left as compared to the left in many other nations.

It's fricking HARD to immigrate LEGALLY to places like NZ, Australia, Canada, many places in Europe.

So sure, those places have massive govt programs for their people, but their people are just as wee bit defensive of those programs as FOR THEM!!!

shite. It's harder to legally immigrate to Mexico than it is to do so here. We're like some sort of retards in this department.

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But Tuba's comments and his wife is an attorney and stuff.

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This group includes legal immigrants and US citizens.

Hey OP, in your link, do they break it down any further?

I'm curious about how large the group of immigrants (alone) as a % of new recipients is. Same for their kids.

Only read what you quoted, and some 30-second ad deterred me from waiting to get to the article.

Immigrant Families Benefit Significantly from Obamacare

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Among the findings:

The number of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) on Medicaid grew twice as fast as the number of natives and their children on Medicaid from 2011 to 2013 — 11 percent vs. 5 percent.

Immigrants and their children accounted for 42 percent of Medicaid enrollment growth from 2011 to 2013, even though they accounted for only 17 percent of the nation’s total population and 23 percent of overall U.S. population growth over this time period.

About two-thirds of the growth in Medicaid associated with immigrants was among immigrants themselves, rather than the U.S.-born children of immigrants.4

The increase in Medicaid enrollment among immigrants and their children can be roughly estimated as costing $4.6 billion annually.5

By 2013, 25 percent of immigrants and their children were on Medicaid, compared to 16 percent of natives and their children.

Partly because of increased Medicaid enrollment, the share of immigrants and their children without health insurance declined more dramatically than for natives, from 28 percent in 2011 to 23 percent in 2013 — a five percentage-point decline. Among natives and their children, it fell from 13 percent to 11 percent — a two percentage-point decline.

Medicaid accounted for 41 percent of the decline in uninsurance associated with immigrants, while it accounted for only 24 percent of the decline in uninsurance among natives and their children.

Although Medicaid use among immigrants and their children is substantially higher than for natives and their children, it is still the case that 23 percent of immigrants and their children were uninsured in 2013 — twice the rate for natives.

Overall, nearly half (48 percent) of immigrants and their children were uninsured or on Medicaid in 2013, compared to slightly over a quarter of natives (27 percent).

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Illegals are not eligible for medicaid ya frickn morons. LINK

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Illegals are not eligible for medicaid ya frickn morons. LINK

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•Not eligible for Medicare, nonemergency Medicaid, or CHIP.

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Note the phrasing "nonemergency". Illegals typically use the emergency room as their primary care physician. Visit any hospital in Southern California and the emergency rooms are overflowing. An elderly man from our church had to wait 8 hours in the emergency room to see a doctor and he was bleeding from the rectum.

We have a problem.

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"You can have open borders or you can have the welfare state, but you cannot have both." Milton Friedman

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fricking THIS.


I am amazed that I haven't heard this from any politician. We need immigrants coming to this country. Immigration is good for everyone involved. What we don't need is a welfare state that supports both citizens and noncitizens.

Canada and the US are the only developed nations with birthright citizenship.

edit: Which I support, but adds argument to the welfare versus immigration policy.