U.S. immigrants' premiums, taxes exceed health care expenditures: study

In a finding that challenges the notion that immigrants are freeloaders in the American health care system, a new study shows they are paying a lot more through health care premiums and related taxes than they actually use in care. 

In fact, the amount that immigrants pay in makes up for some of the amount of health care that non-immigrants use in excess of what they pay. 

“Some politicians and pundits tell Americans that immigrants are a burden to society, and particularly to our health care system,” senior study author Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a distinguished professor at City University of New York’s (CUNY) Hunter College and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, said in a CUNY news release. (author abstract) 

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