Re: Dean Baker on immigration
JBrown72073@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.]