{"id":2539405,"date":"2026-01-16T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-report-shows-red-state-gave-over-1-billion-in-medical-care-to-illegals-in-less-than-one-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:06:51","slug":"government-report-shows-red-state-gave-over-1-billion-in-medical-care-to-illegals-in-less-than-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-report-shows-red-state-gave-over-1-billion-in-medical-care-to-illegals-in-less-than-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Report Shows Red State Gave Over $1 Billion in Medical Care to Illegals in Less Than One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgovernment-report-shows-red-state-gave-over-1-billion-in-medical-care-to-illegals-in-less-than-one-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2539405&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent compilation of Texas Health and Human Services data, highlighted by Texas Scorecard and reported by conservative outlets, says hospitals in fiscal 2025 recorded $1,050,642,864 in costs tied to patients listed as &#8220;not legally present,&#8221; covering 313,742 visits. Recording began in November 2024 after Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s August 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-ca-gov-overstepped-his-authority-with-covid-order-issues-permanent-injunction-restraining-newsom-from-further-issuing-unconstitutional-orders\/\" title=\"Judge Rules CA Gov Overstepped His Authority with Covid ..., Issues Permanent Injunction Restraining Newsom From Further Issuing Unconstitutional ...s\">executive order<\/a> requiring hospitals to track care for undocumented patients. the report breaks the total into about $230 million for emergency-department visits and more than $820 million for inpatient care, with roughly $565 million attributed to patients not covered by Medicaid or CHIP. Those <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >partial-year totals exceed earlier estimates<\/a> (Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s 2021 range of $579-$717 million). The article connects the costs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-biden-from-ending-title-42\/\" title=\"Federal Judge Blocks Biden From Ending Title 42\">increased border crossings<\/a> during the Biden administration, notes Texas&#8217;s Operation Lone Star apprehensions (about 516,300 as of July 2024) and state busing of migrants to other cities, and frames the findings as evidence that federal border policy has driven higher uncompensated hospital costs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you wonder why American health care is so expensive, perhaps you should take a good long look at how much of it is being given to non-Americans &mdash; even in red states.<\/p>\n<p>According to new <a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/executive-order-ga-summary-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and first released by <a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/state\/illegal-aliens-cost-texas-hospitals-over-1-billion-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Scorecard<\/a>, illegal aliens imposed a $1,050,642,864 burden on the state&rsquo;s hospitals in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-stocks-outperform-after-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/\" title=\"Defense Stocks &#039;Outperform&#039; After Russian Invasion of Ukraine\">fiscal year 2025<\/a>, with 313,742 visits being recorded by those &ldquo;not legally present.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Because yes, even in Texas, we have to use euphemisms for &ldquo;illegal alien.&rdquo; But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/illegal-alien-patients-drain-texas-hospitals-racking-up-billion-dollar-bill-in-less-than-a-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheBlaze<\/a> noted, the data were collected and released all because of the efforts of Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed an executive order in August of 2024 mandating that state hospitals begin recording how much of the burden of medical care could be chalked up to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, in less than a full fiscal year &mdash; numbers only began being recorded in November of 2024 &mdash; there was over $1 billion in care involving illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>About $230 million of this was for emergency department visits.<\/p>\n<p>Inpatient care, meanwhile, was over $820 million. In other words, long-term hospitalizations were what was costing Texas the most, with over $565 million from non-Medicaid and non- Children&rsquo;s Health Insurance Program patients.<\/p>\n<p>And even with two months unreported, Texas Scorecard noted in its Wednesday report, &ldquo;the reported costs far exceed earlier estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In 2021, Attorney General Ken Paxton estimated Texans were paying between $579 million and $717 million annually in uncompensated care for illegal aliens. The partial FY 2025 totals alone already surpass that range,&rdquo; the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>But then, why should we even be surprised?<\/p>\n<p>Under Joe Biden&rsquo;s administration, over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/article\/us-cities-innovations-integrate-arrivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 million illegal aliens<\/a> entered the United States, and Texas was by far the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/never-seen-anything-like-see-actual-humanitarian-crisis-looks-like-el-paso-inundated-1300-illegal-immigrants-per-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most active area for these illegal crossings<\/a>. Not all these illegal immigrants ended up settling in Texas, but enough of them did that numerous reports of overwhelmed public services were commonplace during the worst periods of the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>And this is before Texas bused hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants out of its state and to places where they wanted to go &mdash; making cities like Chicago, Denver, and New York hopping mad about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-cant-secure-border-abbotts-operation-lone-star-caught-thousands-criminal-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Lone Star<\/a>, which was meant to enforce immigration law at the state level when the federal government wouldn&rsquo;t, had apprehended <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/texas-apprehends-over-516000-illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">516,300<\/a> illegal immigrants as of July 2024, and while it bused many of those who stayed out of state, there were still plenty who remained in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&rsquo;t believe me, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historian-who-accurately-predicted-4-decades-of-presidential-winners-offers-pick-for-trump-vs-harris\/\" title=\"Historian Who Accurately Predicted 4 Decades of Presidential Winners Offers Pick for Trump Vs. Harris\">numbers don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t lie: Ken Paxton, not known as a man who understates things when it comes to the costs of illegal immigration, pegged the upper limit of uncompensated care at $717 million just a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This was actually short by a margin of almost $300 million now.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden&rsquo;s manufactured border crisis will continue to have ripple effects in the years and decades to come. To the extent a social safety net is desirable, we&rsquo;ll be less inclined to offer it, because we know it&rsquo;ll be abused by people who shouldn&rsquo;t be here but were cynically allowed in because demographics is destiny to some people.<\/p>\n<p>And to the extent that we&rsquo;re forced to pay for the safety net because medical care must be provided and illegal aliens are less likely to pay for obvious reasons, those of us who do pay for our medical care will end up paying more, all because the left found our border a hassle to protect. 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