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BumRushDaShow

(156,755 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 09:54 AM Aug 2024

Texas Gov. Abbott instructs hospitals to collect data on patients' immigration status

Source: CBS News

Updated on: August 8, 2024 / 10:34 PM EDT


Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to people living in the U.S. illegally.

Through an executive order, Abbott directed Texas hospitals to compile data on inpatient discharges and emergency visits by immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization, as well as on the costs of providing medical services to this population.

Abbott instructed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to require hospitals to start collecting the information on Nov. 1 and to provide regular reports to state authorities.

The order applies to hospitals enrolled in Medicaid and the Children Health Insurance Program, as well as other health care centers identified by the commission. To justify the move, Abbott cited the record levels of migrant apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years, claiming that Texas was shouldering the economic burden of providing medical services to migrants entering the country illegally.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-gov-abbott-hospitals-patients-immigration-status-data/

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Texas Gov. Abbott instructs hospitals to collect data on patients' immigration status (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2024 OP
Evil Abbott strikes again. People will now die rather than go to a hospital for emergency care. Lonestarblue Aug 2024 #1
Also Out of State Gender Affirming Care Burnnotice Aug 2024 #2
Abbot & Paxton seem to think citizens are subjects they own. Attilatheblond Aug 2024 #8
Yeah. No. GB_RN Aug 2024 #3
Can states providing medical care to Texans begin keeping vague records for reimbursement/political purposes? Freethinker65 Aug 2024 #4
Everyday, this dirty bastard has to get into peoples lives bluestarone Aug 2024 #5
One thing Walz said at our local rally really stood out. LucasD Aug 2024 #9
"Nunya business." The only correct answer... ret5hd Aug 2024 #6
Can't wait to refuse to answer. Sucha NastyWoman Aug 2024 #7
And hospitals tell Greg Abbott... liberalgunwilltravel Aug 2024 #10
Where are the doctors? Chrysanthemum Aug 2024 #11
Is that how epidemics start? hamsterjill Aug 2024 #12

Burnnotice

(18 posts)
2. Also Out of State Gender Affirming Care
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 10:02 AM
Aug 2024

Abbott and Paxton also raising a stink about people going out of Texas for gender Affirming Care.

Attilatheblond

(6,699 posts)
8. Abbot & Paxton seem to think citizens are subjects they own.
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 11:21 AM
Aug 2024

Cannot understand why the people of Texas put up with that attitude.

GB_RN

(3,400 posts)
3. Yeah. No.
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 10:09 AM
Aug 2024

Gov Mealz-on-Wheelz is going to get beat to shit in court over this. Hospitals have way more important things to do than worry about a patient’s immigration status, much less report it. And then there’s the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” If hospitals start doing this shit, people who are in need of medical care will be afraid to go to the hospital. And if that’s not “doing harm,” I don’t know what the fuck is.

Fuckin’ wankers. With these assholes, cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

Freethinker65

(11,194 posts)
4. Can states providing medical care to Texans begin keeping vague records for reimbursement/political purposes?
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 10:12 AM
Aug 2024

No names attached to protect the patients, but how many Texans are forced to flee the state for care?

bluestarone

(19,946 posts)
5. Everyday, this dirty bastard has to get into peoples lives
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 10:15 AM
Aug 2024

Wish they would decide on what to do with him. Heaven or Hell!!

LucasD

(97 posts)
9. One thing Walz said at our local rally really stood out.
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 12:10 PM
Aug 2024

He said: "We know there's a golden rule. Mind your own damn business!".

Kamala's team needs to hammer that point home everywhere they go.

ret5hd

(21,612 posts)
6. "Nunya business." The only correct answer...
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 10:46 AM
Aug 2024

any reasonable man, woman, child, citizen, alien, pet, or inanimate object should give.

Chrysanthemum

(209 posts)
11. Where are the doctors?
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 09:03 PM
Aug 2024

Doctors (and nurses, too) should be publicly up in arms about this. As others have noted, people will refrain from getting medical help when they need it. It will k ill people.

It's yet another way in which the state of Texas interferes with the practice of medicine. Are medical professionals organizing politically to defeat these cruel state officials and their draconian policies?

hamsterjill

(16,110 posts)
12. Is that how epidemics start?
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 10:23 PM
Aug 2024

Someone won’t go to the hospital for treatment for fear of being discovered, so they expose more and more people.

As a Texan, I just cannot understand why the idiots here vote for him.

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