Texas governor threatens to pull children's hospital funding over doctor's viral post

[Galraedia]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened a children’s hospital with “consequences” after a doctor posted a viral TikTok telling patients they’re not legally obligated to tell a hospital their citizenship status.

On November 1, a new executive order went into effect requiring Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to ask patients if they’re US citizens. The question now appears on intake forms at hospitals across the state, the San Antonio Express-News reports.

Dr. Tony Pastor, a cardiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, went on to post a TikTok on November 11 telling patients they’re not obligated to answer the question. The video went viral, garnering more than one million views.

As a result, the Republican governor said on Wednesday the hospital’s state funding could be at risk.

“Hey Texas Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine this doctor is putting your Medicaid & Medicare funding at risk,” Abbott wrote on X, sharing a link to an Express-News article that reports on Pastor’s video.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/greg-abbott-texas-immigration-hospital-citizenship-question-b2655554.html

[TexasTowelie]

1. "Hey Texas Children's Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine this governor is putting your Medicaid & Medicare funding

at risk.”

Correcting Abbott's lie.

[Meowmee]

2. Fascism in play

[bluestarone]

3. Beginning to think he wants other people to SUFFER, because,

He has to be in a wheelchair!! Fk him!

[Fla Dem]

4. These Republicans are truly evil, uncompassionate, disgusting creeps.

[Dem4life1234]

5. I wonder if they voted for him and saw that he was in a wheelchair

Probably thought he wouldn't be vile because he's disabled. But disabled people, as with anyone else, can be very vile. Anyone can be an asshole.

Him, the nasty control freak in Florida , and that hunchback looking Arkansas governor are the worst governors of America. Real disgusting human beings and hypocrites, too. Acting like they are Christian, they are such phonies.

[marble falls]

6. Abbott and the Orange Shitgibbon are joined at the ideological hip.

[Initech]

7. Greg Abbott is such a worthless fucking asshole.

How very Christian of him. If there is a hell, may he rot in it. And the assholes who put and keep this psychopath in power too.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. One tree falls on the bastard, so now he's going to

spend the rest of his life taking it out on everyone else. Maybe God's aim will be a little better next time She sends a tree in Abbott's direction.

[Dem4life1234]

9. The tree had one job!

[LuckyLib]

10. When I was teaching in Los Angeles many years ago,

our school principal cautioned us that their legal status was none of our business.
She said “We are educators, not La Migra!”

[dalton99a]

11. Goddamn tree fucked up