Why is it necessary to reduce immigration in order to achieve welfare and health care reform?
According to the March 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) by the U.S. Census Bureau, 33.80% of all foreign-born lack health insurance. Immigrants and their young U.S.-born children under 18 account for nearly 1/3 of all persons in the country without health insurance nationwide and more than 70% of the growth of the uninsured population in the U.S. (47.4 percent of immigrants and their children under 18 are either uninsured or on Medicaid. In comparison, 25 percent of natives and their young children are uninsured or on Medicaid.) A study released by Rand Corp. in November, 2006, estimates that health care provided to illegal adult immigrants alone costs about $6.4 billion a year nationally. This does not include health care for illegal immigrant children, or children born in the U.S. of illegal immigrants, or legal immigrants, or children born in the U.S. of legal immigrants.
