Government Report Shows Red State Gave Over $1 Billion in Medical Care to Illegals in Less Than One Year
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 — even in red states.
According to new data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and first released by Texas Scorecard, illegal aliens imposed a $1,050,642,864 burden on the state’s hospitals in fiscal year 2025, with 313,742 visits being recorded by those “not legally present.”
Because yes, even in Texas, we have to use euphemisms for “illegal alien.” But I digress.
As TheBlaze 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.
And, yes, in less than a full fiscal year — numbers only began being recorded in November of 2024 — there was over $1 billion in care involving illegal aliens.
About $230 million of this was for emergency department visits.
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’s Health Insurance Program patients.
And even with two months unreported, Texas Scorecard noted in its Wednesday report, “the reported costs far exceed earlier estimates.