Obama Administration Aims To Curb Medicare Spending on Care for Undocumented Immigrants
President Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget proposal outlines new guidelines and regulations to rein in tens of millions of dollars in annual Medicare spending on care for undocumented immigrants. Although current law prohibits such immigrants from obtaining Medicare and other federal benefits, federal authorities have found that many of them still are receiving the benefits.
- "Crackdown Proposed To Prevent Illegal Immigrants From Obtaining Medicare" (Pear, New York Times, 3/3).