> JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
>
> >Marta writes:
> >
> >>The keener view IMHO is that this overcrowding is desirable to the
> >>ruling elite because it will run the programs into the ground and it
> >>will cleanse the population of the most ill i.e., most costly.
> >
> >OK, but what does that have to do with immigration?
>
> <http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/70xx/doc7030/s1932updat.pdf>
>
> Documentation of Citizenship
>
> * CBO estimates that requiring enrollees to document their U.S. citizenship
> would reduce Medicaid spending by $220 million over five years and by
> $735 million over ten years. We expect that provision would result in an
> estimated 35,000 Medicaid enrollees losing coverage by 2015.
>
> * CBO expects that most of those losing coverage would be illegal immigrants;
> the remainder would be citizens who were unable to produce documentary
> evidence of their citizenship.
>
> [CBO's five-year projection for Medicaid expenditures
> <http://www.cbo.gov/budget/budproj.pdf> is $1.2 trillion. So this
> proposed cost reduction would represent 0.2% of total expenditures.]
Don't illegal immigrants (I really hate that term) pay into the system? If you factor out what they add would you come out with less than the .02% reduction or are undocumented immigrants expected to pay into the system and just help out the nice 'mericans who are the real citizens? CBO list that some losing coverage would be citizens unable to produce documentary evidence of their citizenship. Any idea what percentage of the 35,000 enrollees fit into that category?
John Thornton