REPORT: IMMIGRANTS MAKE UP 42 PERCENT OF OBAMACARE MEDICAID EXPANSION

People who weren’t even born in America are taking significant advantage of one of Obamacare’s single-most expensive benefits, the expansion of Medicaid, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows. In fact, immigrants have accounted for 42 percent of the growth in Medicaid enrollment since Obamacare began being implemented in 2011, the report finds. “The high rate and significant growth in Medicaid associated with immigrants is mainly the result of a legal immigration system that admits large numbers of immigrants with relatively low-levels of education, many of whom end up poor and uninsured,” report co-author Steven Camarota of CIS says. “This fact, coupled with the extensive supports we provide to low-income residents unavoidably creates very significant costs for taxpayers.”

I agree with you . legal and illegal immigration are bad for America and for freedom

as this article shows most immigrant are on welfare. so they also vote democrat. so we get a double whammy against us more socialism and we pay them to live for free

I think that if 42% of the Medicaid sign ups are illegals! that would mean that almost 30% of the total Obamacare sign ups are illegal.

No, the 42% includes legals and illegals. The illegals use Medicaid thru their US born children. Below is a chart somewhat outdated that portrays welfare use by immigrants, illegal aliens, and the native born.

Here is the CIS report that this post refers to

Before the elections, while Obamacare was still being talked about, it was reported that a large percentage of the Medicaid sign ups on the federal exchanges could not be completed because of citizenship questions. I take that to mean that there was no problem with citizenship verification through state run exchanges. Also, there would possibly be no citizenship verification for illegals who are members of the SEIU, especially with sign ups in states that run their own exchanges.<

You are correct that well over a one hundred thousand sign ups had citizenship issues. The number could be a lot higher given the lies of this administration. I hope the career employees in ICE start leaking information about what is going on.

Could well be that next week we will have the amnesty announced and the Ferguson decision that will cause widespread civil unrest. Add that to Obama’s deals with the Iranians and the Chinese, and you have a government in turmoil trying to deal with multiple crises and issues. Straight out of Alinsky and Cloward-Piven,

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