Not in a hundred years

Will you ever see figures like these for any of the major counties in western Washington (because they’re afraid to release them).

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The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says.

The survey, issued by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said that most of the money — $597 million — was spent by local hospital districts for the immigrants’ care during the state’s fiscal year that ended on Aug. 31, 2007.

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The Harris County Hospital District provided $203.5 million in uncompensated care to illegal immigrants in 2007, the report said.

But county hospital district officials disputed the report’s numbers, noting that they were calculated on the basis of charges instead of costs. They said charges are inflated, typically double the actual costs of services to taxpayers.

“The cost of health care to undocumented immigrants is something we worry about, something we monitor, but we don’t want to overstate it,” said David Lopez, president and CEO of the Harris County Hospital District. “It’s not an overwhelming percentage of our budget.”

Lopez said the actual cost is 10 to 14 percent of the hospital district’s budget, or about $100 million to $120 million.

About 80 percent of the district’s illegal immigrant patients were women and children, and most were pregnant women. Lopez said the hospital district was not consulted for the report.

So this guy is OK with spending 10-14% of his county’s annual budget on people who are only here because either ours is better (and costs less) than theirs, or because they want to have an anchor baby.

If he’s an elected official, he should be recalled. If he is appointed, the administration should be pressured to fire him. Even if times were good, $100 million dollars is $100 million dollars too much.