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“Healthcare for illegal immigrants between the ages of 18 and 64 cost American taxpayers $1.1 billion in 2000 ”” or about $11 per household ”” according to a study released Tuesday by the Rand Corp.
The research, published in the November/December edition of the journal Health Affairs, put the cost in Los Angeles County that year at $204 million.
“There are taxpayer implications to illegal immigration, but healthcare is not one of them,” said Jim Smith, a senior economist with Rand and author of the study. “Why are we talking about healthcare when that’s only $1 billion a year?” “
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