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

[BumRushDaShow]

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/

[Lonestarblue]

1. Evil Abbott strikes again. People will now die rather than go to a hospital for emergency care.

[Burnnotice]

2. Also Out of State Gender Affirming Care

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

[Attilatheblond]

8. Abbot & Paxton seem to think citizens are subjects they own.

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

[GB_RN]

3. Yeah. No.

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]

4. Can states providing medical care to Texans begin keeping vague records for reimbursement/political purposes?

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

[bluestarone]

5. Everyday, this dirty bastard has to get into peoples lives

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

[LucasD]

9. One thing Walz said at our local rally really stood out.

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]

6. "Nunya business." The only correct answer...

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

[Sucha NastyWoman]

7. Can't wait to refuse to answer.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

10. And hospitals tell Greg Abbott...

To fuck off.

[Chrysanthemum]

11. Where are the doctors?

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]

12. Is that how epidemics start?

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.