Preliminary Data Show Texas Hospitals Spent Millions On Illegal Alien Care

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The number of visits was in the tens of thousands,
and the costs rout in millions.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Director of HHS Victoria Grady said that recently on the
House floor, State Red Mike Alcott says, though we don't
know the true extent.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
One of the things that we learned was that some
of the hospitals, in their haste, actually been reporting the
data on just pieces of paper.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's pushing a bill that would formalize an annual report
on the matter.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The point of this bill is simply for us to
get a handle on how much this is occurring and
how much is it costing Texas taxpayers and these hospitals.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
He hopes it'll get voted out of committee this week.
Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH