New York's Health + Hospitals Corporation, which runs the city's massive public health infrastructure, takes it as its mission to provide care to anyone who needs it, without regard for immigration status. This policy is a major reason why HHC is on constant verge of financial collapse. During the last fiscal year, HHC needed an emergency allocation of $337 million from the city [i.e., taxpayers] just to keep its doors open, and the prognosis for the future is even worse. At an April press conference, Dr Raj Ramu, president of HHC, said that caring for illegals consumes about one-third of his $7.6 billion annual budget. Rounding down, that means that $2.5 billion -- of which the city is picking up an increasingly large chunk every year, as state and federal aid dries up -- goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens in New York.
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Undocumented—and Unmeasured | City Journal
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Undocumented—and Unmeasured | City Journal
