Immigrants use little health care, subsidize care of non-immigrants: Harvard/Tufts study

(Physicians for a National Health Program) A study in the International Journal of Health Services finds that immigrants use far less health care than non-immigrants, and may actually subsidize the care of US citizens. Immigrants' utilization was only one-half to two-thirds as high as that of the US-born population. Researchers concluded that immigrants effectively subsidize private and public insurance programs (such as Medicare) because they pay more into the system than is paid out for their care.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news