[extropy-chat] weaselly research reporting

[Mike Lorrey]

Could you specify which country this is regarding? I've seen reports
that, at least in southwestern states, hospitals and state agencies are
left with hundreds of millions of dollars in stranded medical costs to
care for illegal immigrants or provide emergency care for foreign
tourists that is unpaid. Arizona had $150 million last year, and CA had
something like $250 million.

One should distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants and provide
data on how much each actually contributes to the economy and to tax
revenues.

--- Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What bothers even a slightly squishy liberal like me is seeing
> today's report by Yahoo News that immigrants (report didn't specify
> whether illegal or not) consume hundreds of dollars less per month
> medical costs than native-born, then going on to report even more
> 'astonishingly' or 'startlingy' how the poorest of immigrant children
> use 84% less medical resources than natives.
> The researcher opines this is a "grave disparity".
>  I want to be a good liberal, a bleeding heart, a feel-good. But with
> bias like this being an intellectual is sometimes dubious. 
>  
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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