Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Mar-Apr;29(3):544-50. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0400. Epub 2010 Feb 11.
The suspected burden that undocumented immigrants may place on the U.S. health care system has been a flashpoint in health care and immigration reform debates. An examination of health care spending during 1999-2006 for adult naturalized citizens and immigrant noncitizens (which includes some undocumented immigrants) finds that the cost of providing health care to immigrants is lower than that of providing care to U.S. natives and that immigrants are not contributing disproportionately to high health care costs in public programs such as Medicaid. However, noncitizen immigrants were found to be more likely than U.S. natives to have a health care visit classified as uncompensated care.
无证移民可能给美国医疗体系带来的负担一直是医疗保健和移民改革辩论的焦点。对 1999 年至 2006 年期间成年入籍公民和移民非公民（其中包括一些无证移民）的医疗保健支出的研究发现，向移民提供医疗保健的成本低于向美国本地人提供医疗保健的成本，而且移民并没有不成比例地导致医疗保健费用过高 Medicaid 等公共计划。然而，与美国本地人相比，非公民移民更有可能接受被归类为无偿护理的医疗保健服务。
