Posted on 07/04/2025 7:44:18 PM PDT by NoLibZone
More than 100,000 patients who visited hospitals in Texas between last November and February of this year admitted they were illegal migrants, according to state data.
The data was gathered after Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law last year requiring hospitals to ask registering patients if they are a legal U.S. resident.
According to KXAN-TV, by the end of February, 108,581 patients admitted to being illegal aliens — about 2.3 percent of all patients.
This number, though, is obviously not complete. The law does not require patients to answer the question, and 12.9 percent — or 617,000 patients — refused to answer. Government officials feel that most of that number are also illegals who simply refused to reveal their citizenship status to hospital registrars.
The Lone Star State’s Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) reports that based on the data collected, the state spent $434 million to care for illegals over the reporting period. Again, that number is probably low considering how many patients refused to answer the citizenship question.
The requirement is aimed at helping officials put a price tag on the impact illegal aliens have on the state’s healthcare system.
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600 plus 100 equals the better part of a million patients were illegals.
In the new BBB bill as per Medicaid:
“Trump’s BBB Cuts Medicaid for 1.4 Million Illegal Aliens...an amendment to block Medicaid for illegal immigrants was rejected.
It also mandates that states verify an applicant’s citizenship before granting coverage, blocks automatic Medicaid enrollment for children of illegal immigrants, and explicitly bars DACA recipients from receiving Medicaid benefits.
For too long, Americans have been paying for the welfare of people who shouldn’t even be in our country.”
Amen to that.
And then they kept silent about how the sacred ventilators were hastening death.
Ca-ching--the hospitals got an extra $38K.
They either have social security numbers or they don’t
If they’re illegal they have no insurance. They either have insurance or hey don’t
Hospitals are not able to turn people away in the ED
They know who’s illegal If they’re government authorizes this the hospital has no say
An illegal comes in after they absolutely have to. They’re diabetic with arterial disease and kidney failure needing dialysis and amputations
Or they have a stroke or heart attack
The money for this is out of control. The hospital is in for payment of weeks in an ICU, operating room expensed, etc
MDs might want to irk for free and the hospital people, so benevolent that they’re fine with all this. But that’s a dream some suburban women has who went to schooo to be a social worker and wants everyone to sing the Barney song
People actually working
Oh well
The system is set up for failure.
What else is new.
“The requirement is aimed at helping officials put a price tag on the impact illegal aliens have on the state’s healthcare system.”
How about TOO DAMN MUCH.
2.3% admitted and 12.9 refused to admit they are wets so the real number is 15.2%.
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My DL has the RealID star on it. The passport cord is on its face proof of citizenship. The receptionist doesn't have to ask if I am a citizen. It's obvious.
Plus add in the illegals who answered the question but lied and stated that they were legally in the United States.
Every one of them should been removed from our country.
Good God! Over 100,000 are illegals. What inhumanly pressure put on the medical facilities in TX. Get rid of these illegals ASAP.
Try going to a Mexican hospital for free medical care.
The left likes to claim “illegals are not eligible for Medicaid”. But by law they are treated when they go to the emergency room. Hospitals are reimbursed from, you guessed it, Medicaid. And the hospitals are happy to take them as they know they will get paid. It’s sometimes called Emergency Medicaid.
Re “… refused to answer…”
Fine. Then refuse to treat.
That should be law as well.
> The law does not require patients to answer the question… <
Well, that’s dumb. Kinda makes the results worthless..
> I have had to provide a government ID. <
Yep. I even have to show ID when visiting the dentist. But then again, I’m a citizen. So I suppose a tougher set of rules apply to me.
Some years ago I had to take my wife to the ER late at night. I was the only white person in the waiting room. Oddly my wife is Mexican now 32 years. We had insurance.
From their accents we could tell what part of Mexico they came from or Central America. Few of these people paid. We paid as we are fully covered with insurance.
The cost of medical insurance is obscene in the USA for two reasons.
1. Your insurance is also paying for their care via extremely high charges to your insurance company.
2. The model for giving care in the United States is dictated by the pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies.
Thems illegal aliens....
Hell. I went to an ObGyn and they had an interpreter in the lobby. I know scant Spanish and could tell what what was being asked.
Small rural hospitals emergence rooms and urgent care facilities have been run out of business and CLOSED because of NON reimbursed costs for the treatment of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Inter city emergence rooms and urgent care facilities are over run and are on the edge of losing the ability to provide reasonable and safe care.
Things such as MRI’s and CAT scans that can mean the deference between an in time diagnoses and untreated fatal diseases are being delayed to accommodate ILLEGAL ALIENS.
TAX paying American citizens are DYING hourly, daily, weekly because of this and the demoRATS, the woke left want you and I to pay more in taxes and get less in services back so they the left can build an ILLEGAL ALIEN block for census numbers and to allow them to vote.
As I write this NGO’s, demoRATs political pac’s, foreign socialist millionaires like george soros are funneling money to antifa and other paid professional protesters and terrorists to attack law enforcement and agents of the federal government. It’s time we hold these provocateurs accountable for their treasonous activities.
I am sure that a large number of people would support the capture and
extradition of soros and his ilk for trial or maybe a drone strike or
two would get the point across?
What go you think?
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