[The Lid] Illegal immigrants cost the U.S. billions a year in health care costs that the illegals never pay for, a Forbes Mag. report says. And that is even though federal law supposedly prohibits this spending.Federal law claims that no federal dollars can go to pay for health care for illegals. Unfortunately, this is a smoke screen because literally BILLIONS of our tax dollars go to fund medical care for illegals anyway.
Forbes magazine’s Chris Conover recent ran the numbers and came up with at least $18.5 billion of our tax dollars wasted on health care for illegal immigrants.
"All told, Americans cross-subsidize health care for unauthorized immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year," Connor said adding, "federal taxpayers provided $11.2 billion in subsidized care to unauthorized immigrants in 2016."
Connor went on to describe how federal law is meant to prohibit the use of U.S. tax dollars to fund medical care for illegals. But all those laws are bent into pretzels as our taxes go to support precisely what it is supposed to leave unpaid.
"Specifically, in 2013 (the latest available such figures), America’s uninsured generated $84.9 billion in uncompensated care costs," Connor wrote.