"Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals Over $1 Billion in 2025," reports the Texas Scorecard. According to data collected by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, there were "313,742 hospital visits from patients not legally present in the U.S., costing hospitals $1.05 billion during the reporting period."
Notably, the data does not reflect a full fiscal year of mandatory reporting. Hospitals were only required to begin submitting data in November 2024, leaving the first two months of fiscal year 2025—September and October—unreported.
Funny how Libertarian sorts claiming that illegal aliens are a net benefit to the economy always seem to leave a lot of “externalities” out of their calculations: Higher crime rates, more sex trafficking, enabling transnational criminal organizations, more voting fraud, higher government spending and higher taxes to provide government services for illegal aliens, higher prices for citizens for limited housing, depressed wages for citizens, etc. And, of course, higher medical bills and insurance rates for citizens, since illegal aliens generally feel no compulsion to buy health insurance.
And, as one of the comments to Person's post noted, this doesn't even include the illegal Medicaid expenditures to benefit illegal aliens. And this is just one state.
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