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"Even though federal law largely bars illegal
immigrants from obtaining Medicaid coverage, the program annually pays
out more than $2 billion in free emergency coverage that mostly goes to
illegal immigrants, according to Kaiser Health News. The vast majority
of the total emergency care reimbursements cover delivering babies,
Kaiser reports. Based on a Kaiser data analysis of the states believed
to have the greatest populations of illegal immigrants — including
California, New York, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Illinois and
Florida — more than 100,000 people annually receive emergency care that
is reimbursed by Medicaid."
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