Posted on 05/02/2025 6:16:58 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Illegal aliens cost Texas hospitals more than $100 million in just a single month, brand new data from the Lone Star State shows.
Texas hospitals are on the hook for a $121.8 million bill incurred by illegal aliens across 31,000 visits in November 2024 alone, according to data collected by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC).
The findings came after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an order directing THHSC to collect and provide quarterly data on the cost of illegal aliens to the state’s hospitals and the number of visits from illegal aliens. The first full year of data from THHSCC will be released in January 2026.
“Many of these illegal immigrants are straining the Texas hospital system, which is why Governor Abbott directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to begin assessing the cost of care,” Abbott Press Secretary Andrew Mahaleris explained.
“Now, Texas has reliable data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” Mahaleris noted, also adding that President Donald Trump’s deportation operations “may also cause these healthcare costs to decline.”
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The democrat party plans are on schedule and doing well socialism is here and it’s going to stay and grow unless the the voters oust every elected democrat and Rino.
There are things worse than 1984 open eyes.
All I’ve heard for the past 30 years or so is that Americans go to Mexico for medical services, surgeries and drugs because they are cheaper there. Why the hell is Mexico sending its people here for medical services and drugs? Once the black robed tyrants have reopened the borders, hospital treatment in America will be impossible to get. We’ll all be going to Mexico.
I'm glad you brought that up, it's very important.
EMTALA was passed with huge bipartisan majorities in both Houses of Congress. More Republicans voted for it than Democrats. It was signed by Ronald Reagan.
The essence of the law is that any hospital that receives a dime of Federal money (i.e., all hospitals) must treat all patients arriving in an Emergency Room regardless of ability to pay.
President Reagan and the Congress did not even consider funding this obligation (meaning, the government that created this obligation thought, "well hospitals have enough money, let them pay for it").
The cost of this obligation (and the punitive fines needed to preserve it) is in at least tens of billions of dollars/year, and it is destabilizing, especially to smaller and more rural hospitals, which are closing at an accelerating rate.
And I agree, it's been a disaster.
But consider this: Care for people who can't or won't pay for it IS OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR. Members of Congress who are in office through elections may or may not vote for nationalized hospital care - but they will NEVER take away the elements of the system they have already nationalized.
Send the Judges and Sanctuaries the Bill. I’m so sick on my high property taxes and sales tax here in Texas.
With a big fat reminder that the Judicial Branch doesn’t hold the purse strings nor do they have access to taxpayer funding. Finish it off with a section for them to include their personal banking information.
Why on earth would it focus on data from 2006-2008?? It can't do anything more recent?
“””Texas hospitals are on the hook for a $121.8 million bill”””
I agree that TEXAS should be concerned about paying hospital bills for illegals.
That being said, we all know that hospitals regularly bill the insurance company $50,000 for a procedure and the insurance company pays the hospital $5000.
So I am suspicious that the $121.8 million hospital bill would result in $12 million payment from the insurance companies were the illegals insured.
> Why the hell is Mexico sending its people here for medical services and drugs?<
Here, in Honduras, medical care is quite good and very inexpensive. The hitch is you have to actually pay for it.
A local friend hit a water truck with his motorbike. His leg suffered a nasty compound fracture. He was taken to the emergency room where they wrapped it up enough to control the bleeding. He would receive no other care until 15,000 Lempira ($600 USD) was paid. We paid it for him and he received quite good care. He has fully recovered and I get free haircuts for life.
That is what stabilizing care is defined as, not a private room, all types of medication, meals, surgery and a free ambulance ride.
I’m still steamed from my experience on the ER waiting room floor, with a herniated disc, and all of the chairs were taken by sniffling kids and their 7 family members.
EC
Have a separate birthing center that is nationalized as Mexican soil so they can’t claim citizenship. Also, must provide money to be seen if they are not American or they will get a bandaid and a bus ticket.
Which ultimately means YOU the taxpayer
My father had internal bleeding and had to wait 4-5 hrs while all these Hispanics were being taken back to be treated. He was one of the last ones to be seen - there were about 50 people in the lobby when he got there and just a few when he was finally seen.
We need to bill Mexico and they need to PAY or start taxing all of the Western Union money going there.
The hospital is their primary care physician.
There is a private hospital in my town that bills itself as a “Medical Center”. Basically, it’s a hospital with an ER, but public ambulances don’t go there.
It takes no Medicaid or uninsured and Medicare is restricted (and generally has substantial co-pays to make payments match what private insurance pays).
Clean, efficient, quick, no illegals, best doctors.
Wave of the future.
Sounds like we need a few ICE agents hanging out at hospitals.
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Just add a Medical cost tariff to every single product transported across the border to mexico.
Going into Mexico, just add the cost to every plane ticket, cruise ship fee, credit card charge or vehicle that goes into that sh#t hole.
Put a toll booth right as you enter the state system highway system with every vehicle automatically charged or ticketed .....then charged.
Do the same for every rail car, transport vehicle or even foot traffic across the bridge to enter the US.
Yep. When they are discharged, arrest them.
I am calling total B.S. on this
When you divide 128 billion by 31,000 is approximately $4,129,032.00
I find it very hard to believe this even when you bill $1500 for a single tylenol pill.
there is massive tax write off fraud going on here
“””there is massive tax write off fraud going on here”””
For example, a hospital bills an UNINSURED person $50,000 for a procedure. The UNINSURED person does not pay the bill.
Now an INSURED person has the exact procedure, the hospital bills the insurance company $50,000, and the insurance company pays the hospital $5000.
Does the hospital write off $50,000 on their income taxes for the UNINSURED person?
OR
Does the hospital write off $5,000 on their income taxes for the UNINSURED person?
I worked as an ER provider for years. I finally quit once I realized that I was busting my butt for an overpriced urgent care for welfare losers.
Between this and schools alone, they are costing us over a Trillion a year...
Those who claim that they pay taxes, what a joke, even if they did,,,they would never cover what they cost us...
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