Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Health Care and Immigration

You know how conservatives like to blame uninsured illegal immigrants for the rising costs of health care? Well, the Economic Policy Institute released this graph that shows change in the share of the uninsured with and without post-2000 immigration increases.* Don't you love it when you can point to a graph to prove your point?

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*This post originally said this was a change in overall health care spending.

Cross posted at campusprogress.org/blog.

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