[Non-Sequitur]

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative research organization, estimates Texas could save $60 billion from 2013 to 2019 by opting out of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, dropping coverage for acute care but continuing to finance long-term care services.

Refusing to pay for acute care will not make people stop going to emergency rooms. If by law emergency rooms are forbidden from turning people away because of inability to pay, and if the state won't reimburse hospitals for treatment, then won't that cause hospitals to just drop emergency rooms?

[USALiberty]

If by law emergency rooms are forbidden from turning people away because of inability to pay, and if the state won't reimburse hospitals for treatment

That is EASILY fixed. Change the law. What if every emergency room had a machine at the entrance that required folks to scan an insurance or ATM card? No legit insurance? Fine, then scan the ATM card. Not enough in the bank account to assure the hospital of payment? NO admittance.