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Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals Over $1 Billion in 2025​

New data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission surpasses earlier estimates.
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By Brandon Waltens | January 14, 2026
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Texas hospitals incurred more than $1 billion in health care costs for patients not lawfully present in the United States during fiscal year 2025, according to new data obtained from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

The figures were collected under an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott in August 2024, which requires hospitals to report the cost of inpatient and emergency care provided to individuals in the country illegally. Under Abbott’s order, hospitals are also required to inform patients that responses regarding immigration status will not affect their care, as required by federal law.

Statewide totals show 313,742 hospital visits from patients not legally present in the U.S., costing hospitals $1.05 billion during the reporting period. The largest share of the expense—more than $565 million—came from inpatient discharges for non-Medicaid and non-CHIP patients.

Emergency department visits accounted for roughly $230 million, while total inpatient care exceeded $820 million, underscoring that long-term hospitalizations, not emergency treatment alone, are driving much of the cost.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/illegal-aliens-cost-texas-hospitals-over-1-billion-in-2025/

Just one example for the ignorant PrivateRewrite

$1 billion is 0.020% of the $4.9 trillion spent on healthcare annually in the US.

iLLegaL iMmiGrAntS aren’t why US healthcare is twice as expensive as in other countries.

 

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"Trump's 2-page proposal is an insult to 'concepts of plans' everywhere."

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Price controls are essential to all of the universal healthcare systems that are so much cheaper than ours. So US health insurance companies are correct when they say they’re just passing inflated costs through to customers. That’s how insurance works.

Health insurance CEOs point fingers over soaring health care costs

Some of the nation’s top health insurance executives sought to deflect blame for the soaring cost of health care in the U.S., arguing that rising hospital and prescription drug prices were driving premiums higher and making health care less affordable for Americans.

The CEOs of five major health insurers testified before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Thursday, the first in a series of back-to-back hearings focused on finding the root causes driving unaffordability in the health care system, including skyrocketing premiums.

“The cost of health care insurance fundamentally reflects the cost of health care itself. It is more of an effect than a cause,” said Stephen Hemsley, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health care provider.

 

[Bray123]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

The purpose of an insurance company is not to provide excellent healthcare, but to provide dividends to the shareholders and profits to share dealers. Healthcare is a mere avenue of achieving those aims.

If they could make even more money by killing off the sick more quickly they would do just that. It's the fear of having to pay out compensation that prevents them.

 

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Children are 80% more likely to die before reaching adulthood in the US than in other high-income countries. This is due to both a financial approach to health and a cavalier attitude to child safety such as lax gun laws.

https://sociology.cornell.edu/news/child-mortality-rate-has-jumped-2019

 

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Medicare Advantage plans are scams, pure and simple.

 

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It’s always interesting to hear from Americans who have experience with universal healthcare.

 

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Healthcare is a top issue for upcoming elections.

Americans Are More Worried About Health Care Costs Than Gas or Groceries

The price of health care tops the US public’s long list of economic worries ahead of the midterm elections, according to new polling data, as “affordability” has become a buzzword championed by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Two-thirds of Americans report worrying about health care more than groceries, utilities, gas or housing, according to research published by the health policy research firm KFF. Over half of adults said the cost of their health care increased this year, with the majority saying Congress did the “wrong thing” by not extending Affordable Care Act credits that helped pay for insurance coverage.

Any politician who doesn’t address the cost of healthcare is a useless waste of oxygen.

 

[Bray123]

A healthcare insurance company is much like a miniature universal system. You pay your money in, they deal with hospitals etc to provide care.

The difference is that the company creams money off the top to pay the exorbitant salaries of the directors, profits and dividends before a hospital is even considered. OTOH, a national system has the muscle to negotiate lower prices for drugs and it's more efficient to hire cleaners and maintenance and have power etc without having to calculate how much each person needs to pay.

It's the lower unit price for drugs that riles up Trump, he has zero interest in patient wellbeing but plenty of interest in profits.

 

[heathrowinneo]

A healthcare insurance company is much like a miniature universal system. You pay your money in, they deal with hospitals etc to provide care.

The difference is that the company creams money off the top to pay the exorbitant salaries of the directors, profits and dividends before a hospital is even considered. OTOH, a national system has the muscle to negotiate lower prices for drugs and it's more efficient to hire cleaners and maintenance and have power etc without having to calculate how much each person needs to pay.

It's the lower unit price for drugs that riles up Trump, he has zero interest in patient wellbeing but plenty of interest in profits.

If the admin and congress truly cared about the American public, hc would be an issue. It just adds to the affordability argument and depositing 2k into hsa's or similar accounts won't help. Too many special interests donating to politicians.

 

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The increase in US healthcare spending over time

On a per capita basis, total health spending, including government, private, out-of-pocket, research, and infrastructure spending, has increased in the last five decades from $353 per year in 1970 to $15,474 per year in 2024. In constant 2024 dollars, the increase was from $2,208 in 1970 to $15,474 in 2024.

And how US healthcare spending per capita compares to other nations.

 

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The increase in US healthcare spending over time



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And how US healthcare spending per capita compares to other nations.

More to add to the affordability crisis.

 

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More to add to the affordability crisis.

Yeah. It’s mind boggling that healthcare spending per capita increased 601% from 1970 to 2024 after adjusting for inflation!

 

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Hospitals charge patients for having visitors in the US.

In Wales UK even the car parking is free (OK, paid for by the taxes already).

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The impact of America’s exorbitant medical care costs on the personal finances of retirees.

Out-of-pocket healthcare spending in retirement is mountains more than people plan for. Even including Medicare coverage and ignoring long-term care, retirees face sizable out-of-pocket costs for premiums, copays, and uncovered medical services.

These bills eat up roughly a third of a typical retiree’s Social Security income and almost a quarter of total income, according to a new report from the Center for Retirement at Boston College.

Health-related cost inflation is expected to remain high with a projected long-term inflation rate of 5.8% (based on a 65-year-old couple retiring in 2026, with average health and national average costs), according to a new report from data firm HealthView Services. Social Security COLAs are projected to rise by only 2.4%.

The one thing US healthcare does better than any other nation is bankruptcy! We’re #1!

 

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Catastrophic in so many ways for Americans. Yet, we are in the gilded age. Just look at the stock market.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-team-offers-answer-rising-175420945.html

 

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The impact of America’s exorbitant medical care costs on the personal finances of retirees.







The one thing US healthcare does better than any other nation is bankruptcy! We’re #1!

good article on what is happening in the real America. Seniors fighting just to keep their heads above water. Rome burns while Nero plays golf.

 

[RobDownSouth]

good article on what is happening in the real America. Seniors fighting just to keep their heads above water. Rome burns while Nero plays golf.

President Mushbrain can no longer swing a golf club. How sad.
The end is nigh.