County will fund nonemergency treatment of undocumented residents FORT WORTH - Undocumented immigrants will get unprecedented access to the county's charitable health care system, which could cost Tarrant County taxpayers millions of dollars, JPS Health Network trustees decided Thursday. The decision's proponents maintain that providing preventive care to indigent undocumented immigrants could save the county money in the future and would be a more humane way of dealing with vexing public-health problems. But hospital administrators' concerns are rooted in the present. "In the short term, I'm concerned about the capacity of the hospital to handle the new patients," said Gale...
