President #Obama: Don't Eliminate Thousands of #Immigrants' #Medicare Benefits

 

healthcare-now.org

 



President Obama's 2015 budget proposal would "involuntarily disenroll" some (fewer than 5,000) undocumented immigrants currently receiving some Medicare benefits--even those who have been paying into Medicare for decades--in order to realize minimal savings that will be offset by the costs to hospitals for treating the elderly uninsured.

Tell President Obama that his proposal to cut
immigrant Medicare benefits is unfair, heartless, and unnecessary.

Immigrants--mostly undocumented--contributed $13.8 billion dollars more into Medicare than they received in benefits in 2009, while US-born people generated a $30.9 billion deficit.

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@tikkunolam:

The Green Party would enact single-payer universal health care and preventive care for all. We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege: http://www.gp.org/what-we-believe/our-platform/17-platform/39-ii-social-justice#HealthCare

The Green Party calls for Comprehensive Immigration Reform: http://www.gp.org/what-we-believe/our-platform/17-platform/39-ii-social-justice#ImmigrationEmigration