Medicaid spends 1 pct on illegal immigrants: study
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Less than 1 percent of Medicaid  spending went to health care for illegal immigrants, according  to a study that the researchers said defied a common belief  that they are a bigger drain on taxpayer money.
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SEATTLE -- Washington state&#39;s Medicaid system cannot account for 1.4 million pills, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are receiving benefits and abuse of mental patients may be unreported, auditors believe.
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CHICAGO -- Immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life may actually be harming their health. A newly released study finds that obesity is relatively rare in immigrants when they arrive
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period
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THE GAZETTE. DENVER - Coloradoâs Medicaid program is wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars because the programâs prescription drug system is managed poorly, according to an audit released Monday.
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The Bush administration said that it would simply send the cards to 1.8 million people with low incomes who are eligible but have not applied for Medicare.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The lion&#39;s share of Emergency Medicaid expenditures in North Carolina covers undocumented immigrants&#39; pregnancy and labor complications, a trend that&#39;s probably occurring in other states, a new study found.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. Alabama&#39;s Medicaid officials have looked into it and many have done it, but a new government report from the Health and Human Services Task Force on Importation warns that importing cheap
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The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $600 million to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for detained illegal immigrants.
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The US is to spend $1m to help governments in Central America and Mexico combat violent gangs.
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Public health costs (Medicaid) are undermining development prospects for many state in the USA. In the state of Pennsylvania, 25% of its $51 billion budget will be dedicated to health care for the less well off.
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Nearly six in 10 eligible children whose parents applied for Medicaid in Virginia went without health care for weeks or months because of a new federal rule intended to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving coverage, according to a state survey of 800 low-income families.
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Nearly one of every seven Michigan residents is eligible for Medicaid, the state&#39;s primary health care safety net for the poor and uninsured.
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Law enforcement authorities are stepping up an attack on health-care fraud that they say costs taxpayers more than $60 billion each year.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the state Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost -- time in a Mexican jail.
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The illegal immigrant parents of a toddler with a little-known genetic abnormality were granted a one year stay in the United States, U.S. Customs and Immigration officials said Thursday.