Daily Wire:
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.
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How much did NYS rack up in medical bills for invaders!!!?? Asking for over TAXED TAXPAYERS in NY State.!!!! Anyone????!!!!
Is that right… that’s nearly $4000 a visit
$4k a visit is cheap. We got a $6k. bill where they did nothing but run some tests and sent us home with a Tylenol prescription.
Did you see the vid where the lady got a $335 bill for a 15 min med exam? Charged for every little thing, take her wt..chg….take bp…chg…take temp…chg and on and on.
Hospitals are just vacuums for cash.
Also thanks to Reagan’s Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). EMTALA was enacted by Congress in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985 (42 U.S.C. §1395dd). Anyone who visits the emergency room of hospitals that accept Medicare must be treated or stabilized, regardless of their insurance status, citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. EMTALA is why ERs are full of people and illegal aliens using it like a visit to the GP. EMTALA creates an unnecessary burden on ERs the cost of which is paid for by US taxpayers.
Abbott should sue Joe Biden and Mayorkas directly to recover the money!!
I’m an RN in the SF Bay Area. One-third of my patients are Spanish-speaking, and all of them are on medical or uninsured coverage.
Just tax their send-home money at 50% to pay for it!
multiply that times 50, and you’ll have an idea what the left’s precious new voters really cost this nation.
I suppose it’s good to know exactly how fast your boat is sinking.
Hasn’t occurred to anyone to stop the leak.
Cloward-Piven
They want to break the bank and burn the place down. This is simply one of of their many ways to accomplish that.
Not to mention the housing,EBT and preferential treatment in the school system.
I’m no mathematical genius, but I’m pretty sure that adds up to over $1 billion a year…
JustPassingThru
Friday, 2 May 2025, 16:55 at 4:55 pm
“Anyone who visits the emergency room of hospitals that accept Medicare must be treated or stabilized, regardless of their insurance status, citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.”
…I was schlepping the sick and injured under this program, and it was a Godsend. It wasnt my place or anyones place to decide someone should die based on their ability to pay, and the more dire patients are being transported under implied consent and its a little tough to check their insurance status when they arent breathing, plus you have other things to do at such times that dont involve doing clerical work for for-profit hospitals.
Cincinnati and suburbs were and are ringed by Catholic for-profit hospitals, one of which was about 10 minutes max from most places in my district. It wasnt a Level 1 trauma center or anything but they could definitely save a life and had VERY good doctors. They were not allowed to refuse emergent patients under the law you referred to or, believe me, they would, which would change the 10 minute drive to a 30-40 minute trek even under Code 3 conditions to get to the centrally located General Hospital that was where charity cases would wind up, which -given that much of the Golden Hour was consumed in someone finding a dying person, us getting there, and scene time assesing, stabilizing, and packaging could literally be the difference between life and death.
Im not saying the modern penchant for using the ER as a primary care doctor’s office is right, but it is also not required under that law beyond an assessment to determine if the pt was emergent or not. The Catholic hospitals would ABSOLUTELY punt the charity cases down Pill Hill the moment they had confidence it wouldnt result in a wrongful death lawsuit, but given that the paramount DUTY of ANY care provider is to not let people die, I dont see anything wrong with codifying that part of the Oath into a law that compels the facility to support the provider in that,especially comsidering that (in my county anyway) a very specific tax levy was passed with voter approval for reimbursing them anyway.
Also, State law at the time COMPELLED us to take an emergent patient to the nearest appropriate facility. We could NOT give a choice of hospitals given that, as a municipal ambulance service we were an EMERGENCY provider, so if we drove past ONE hospital with Dying Guy to get to another, we would be liable under State law to be sued to smithereens and possibly even criminal penalties for violation of same if the prosecutor were so inclined.
Besides, people NEVER called me when things were great, it was already a high-stress, high stakes thing many times when I was requested at their door, and adding TO that stress by telling Parent that Child was just gonna have to be sick a lot longer because they foolishly decided to pay the rent a couple days earlier wasnt going to improve the situation at ALL, and even from a TAXPAYER standpoint it could be MUCH more expensive if they deteriorate during the longer ride to the packed charity ward, because ventlators at the County expense dont come cheap, and neither do even pauper funerals.
So on balance even as a taxpayer, having seen the alternative that this was a good and necessary law. Yes, it could be made a bit stricter it terms of weeding the non-emergent from the emergent, but given that the overriding duty of ANY healer is to err on the side of life, Id rather waste Band-Aids on a dozen than lose a life that didnt need to be lost because, money.
SNS,
All well and good but, eventually, the hospitals will simply close their doors. They cannot afford to hemorrhage that kind of money indefinitely. And it makes no difference whether the patients are illegals or citizens – if you lose $100 Million a month you’ll eventually run out of money.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
…and people still ask why hospitals charge $18 for an aspirin.
Tim
Saturday, 3 May 2025, 6:01 at 6:01 am
“SNS,
All well and good but, eventually, the hospitals will simply close their doors. They cannot afford to hemorrhage that kind of money indefinitely. ”
…true.
Which is why there is the Indigent Care levy I mentioned.
Plus, the services are not unlimited. “stabilizing” is not definitive care. The hospital is required to treat the patient until they are stable enough to be transported to the general hospital, at which time their responsibility and expense ends. The general hospital then deals with the immediate, life-threatening issue until the patient can be released to either return home, to social services, to prision, or for deportation. They do not treat every ache and ill if those aches and ills are not mortal.
Is it ideal? No. Do I as a taxpayer whose worked his whole life to insure himself and his family LIKE paying additional tax levies for those who dont? No. Am I happy MY medical bills are universally higher to subsidize those that cant or wont pay? No.
But as a human being and aspiring follower of Christ, I am unwilling to let people die in the waiting room because their circumstances were less blessed than mine.
I do not decide who is worthy of life, nor do I think wealth or insurance or even citizenship is a good measure of worthiness. Thats the Lord’s job, not mine. It is the job of medicine to save lives, period.
What happened before and what happens after is another matter.
…one other thing.
In my time I carried more than one John Doe. When a guy is beaten unconscious during a robbery the theif generally doesnt thoughfully remove the victim’s ID card and insurance info from his purloied wallet or pinched purse, so we have no idea who that is, what their means are, or if they can pay or will even live long enough to do so. Bad risk, from a financial point of view. He may be any color, visually of any ethnicity, and may or may not be a citizen, hes unresponsive so its hard to ask.
So should he be left to lay?
Means testing is pretty problematic in emergent situations. Were I that robbery victim, I would hope someone would be willing to take me to a hospital and restore me to my family so we can then have a billing discussion with them.
….but if we start requiring proofs before treatment, I guess Id just be collateral damage.
..you cant answer this issue in any one place, but the hospital is NOT the place to answer it. The answer is vetting, deportation, enforcement actions BEFORE they become sick, that they may avail themselves of health care back home and not here.
Hospitals cannot and do not exist in isolation. If they fail from being overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, the issue is government not dealing with illegal immigrants OUTSIDE the hospital and THAT needs to change.
And THAT is the place to change it.
Not in the ER.
After what the hospitals did to supposed “Covid” patients, perhaps this is a good way to eliminate the illegal immigrants problem.