Footing the bill for undocumented immigrants

PhillyBurbs.com

10/5/2009

Taxpayers footed a $25.3 million bill in 2007-08 to pay for emergency health care for non-citizens in Pennsylvania. Tax-funded subsidies of $2 million went to seven area hospitals.

While U.S. lawmakers seek to exclude illegal immigrant from proposed national health care reform plans, U.S. taxpayers already cover the medical bills for uninsured and undocumented immigrants.

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