RAND study shows little public money spent on health care to undocumented immigrants

A small fraction of health care spending is used to provide publicly supported care to America's undocumented immigrants, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The report, which appears in the November edition of the journal Health Affairs, estimates that about $1.1 billion in federal, state and local government funds are spent annually on health care for undocumented immigrants aged 18 to 64 -- amounting to an average of $11 in taxes per US household.