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Abbott order will require Texas hospitals to collect patients’ immigration status
Texas Tribune ^ | Aug. 8, 2024 | Asad Jung

Posted on 08/14/2024 9:32:40 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order on Thursday that requires hospitals in Texas to collect information on the immigration status of patients so that the hospitals can then track costs incurred for the care of undocumented migrants.

Previous guidance for hospitals did not include questions about immigration status. The executive order would mandate the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to collect this information so that the state of Texas could then bill the federal government.

“Due to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ open border policies, Texas has had to foot the bill for medical costs for individuals illegally in the state,” Governor Abbott said in a statement on Thursday. “Texans should not have to shoulder the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants.”

The order requires that hospitals in Texas collect information regarding the costs of medical care provided to undocumented immigrants starting Nov 1, 2024. Direct covered hospitals would have to report data to the state health commission quarterly, beginning in March 2025.

(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; healthcare; hospital; texas
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1 posted on 08/14/2024 9:32:40 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

healthcare is a human right and requiring nation status will prevent those needing help to go without...

/sarc


2 posted on 08/14/2024 9:35:40 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: BradtotheBone

Good!

And, how about we deport, immediately, pending that info?

I hear Meheeco has wonderful healthcare 😏


3 posted on 08/14/2024 9:41:18 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: teeman8r

This way, we can all pay for something that no one should be paying for.


4 posted on 08/14/2024 9:41:32 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: BradtotheBone

Make them pay or send the bill to their home country or deduct from any aid their home country gets ,LOL


5 posted on 08/14/2024 9:41:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: BradtotheBone

Once again copying DeSantis’ great policies.


6 posted on 08/14/2024 9:44:45 AM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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The EMTALA Act of 1986 orders ERs to give health care even to illegals and even if they can’t pay. It’s meant for emergencies but illegals use it for everything. That’s how they get free health care and bankrupt our hospitals.


7 posted on 08/14/2024 9:45:28 AM PDT by Diversity Is Our Weakness
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To: BradtotheBone

This shouldn’t even be an issue

I suppose it is because it will show the costs are absolutely enormous


8 posted on 08/14/2024 9:46:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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Too late. Biden Harris are granting fast track citizenship to the millions of invaders.


9 posted on 08/14/2024 9:47:22 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: BradtotheBone

When Abbott finally got with it, he really got with it.


10 posted on 08/14/2024 9:51:02 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: BradtotheBone

“”so that the state of Texas could then bill the federal government.””

I think that was “tried” years ago without any success or perhaps it was just a PLAN that never went anywhere. Don’t recall exact details but it could have been CA before we moved from that state in 2006...


11 posted on 08/14/2024 9:52:35 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

A little late wouldn’t you say? Question them in English. If no comprende the issue is settled.


12 posted on 08/14/2024 10:01:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BradtotheBone

And, so?


13 posted on 08/14/2024 10:03:43 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: BradtotheBone

Patch up the illegals sufficiently to turn them over to ICE for immediate deportation.

Much like Shovel Ready Jobs, here are Deport Ready Illegals.


14 posted on 08/14/2024 10:03:48 AM PDT by Reno89519 (“We believe in the collective,” says Gun Grabbing Harris and Stolen Valor Timmy "Tampon" Walz.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“”If no comprende the issue is settled.””

That wouldn’t work because they all say that when they are responding to someone speaking to them in English...they understand what has been said...it’s a game with them.


15 posted on 08/14/2024 10:06:22 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

Maybe this will help provide quantitative data to prove damages.


16 posted on 08/14/2024 10:15:24 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That’s right.


17 posted on 08/14/2024 10:18:06 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BradtotheBone

I wouldn’t be surprised if many people claim they are illegal when they are not so they don’t have to have insurance, give an address or social security number or get billed.

There isn’t really anyone ‘hiding in the shadows’ it is a marketing ploy.


18 posted on 08/14/2024 10:18:24 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild

I would bet that if Texas were to start sending bills to the country the patient belongs to, and IF our fed gov were to back it up.

We’d see a LOT less illegals from those countries.

I’d suggest adding in the cost of education.


19 posted on 08/14/2024 10:29:03 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: BradtotheBone

That must have hurt the Tribune to print.


20 posted on 08/14/2024 11:21:47 AM PDT by daniel boob
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