Sunday, December 31, 2006

[USA] The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants / Rand, 28 Dec 2006

PDF - http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2006/RAND_RB9230.pdf
“The policy debate over immigration should focus not on health care costs but rather on a fuller analysis of all the fiscal benefits and costs of immigrants. Such an analysis should incorporate the taxes paid by immigrants and also the other public benefits received—in particular, public school costs—where the public costs for all types of immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, is likely to be much larger than those for nonimmigrants.” Contains summary data.