Posts Tagged ‘Immigrants’
Senators Lobbies for Illegal Immigrant Healthcare
State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, who is the chairman of the California Legislative Latino Caucus, is working with a broad coalition of organizations to propose a new law that would allow all Californians access to health insurance, including those living in the country illegally. California has made historic progress by passing a slew of…
Read MoreImmigrants Responsible for Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds
Bet you didn’t know that immigrants pay for your Medicare. Congress has been wanting to close borders for quite some time with their immigration reform act, but this could deplete Medicare’s already dwindling trust fund. The current issue of journal Health Affairs states that within seven-year period immigrants paid $115.2 billion in Medicare than they…
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