Texas will implement a law requiring hospitals to ask about patients' legal status, effective November 1, shortly before the presidential election. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott stated, “Texans should not have to shoulder the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants.”


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Florida hospitals ask immigrants about their legal status. Texas will try it next

Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November. Florida has had a similar law

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — For three days, the staff of an Orlando medical clinic encouraged a woman with abdominal pain who called the triage line to go to the hospital. She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether a patient was in the U.S. with legal permission.  The clinic had worked hard to explain the limits of the law, which was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ sweeping package of tighter immigration policies. The…

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McALLEN, Texas, EE.UU. — Durante tres días, el personal de una clínica médica de Orlando alentó a una mujer con dolor abdominal que llamó a la línea de triaje a que fuera al hospital. Ella se resistió, atemorizada por una ley de Florida de 2023 que requiere que los hospitales pregunten si un paciente está en Estados Unidos con permiso legal. La clínica había trabajado duro para explicar los límites de la ley, que es parte del amplio paquete de p…

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Texas and Florida have a long history of challenging the federal government’s immigration policies by passing their own.

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Florida hospitals ask immigrants about their legal status

Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November. Florida has had a similar law since 2023. Neither state will report immigration status answers to law enforcement. Doctors and advocate groups in Florida say people were scared to get treatment at hospitals and clinics but that the fear is subsiding thanks to education campaigns …

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking patients’ immigration status in November. Florida has had a similar law since 2023. Neither state will report immigration status answers to law enforcement. Doctors and advocate groups in Florida say people were scared to get treatment at hospitals and clinics but that the fear is subsiding thanks t…

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