Study challenges immigrant healthcare costs

New research released in the American Journal of Public Health appears to quash some commonly held beliefs about the role recent immigrants play in the health care system. A team at Harvard found that recent immigrants average about $962 in annual healthcare costs, half the $1,870 for native-born Americans. There is evidence, however, that immigrants appear more in the ER than those born here.

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