But who lives there?
The BBC website has an article about health care that compares McAllen, Texas with El Paso. The average cost per patient for care in McAllen is far higher than that of El Paso. The article also includes the comment that McAllen has become a hub of high tech health care, with many new hospitals and complexes being constructed in the recent past.
While it does examine the first thoughts which come to mind in (the doctors own the hospitals and out-patient clinics), the article does not specifically mention an analysis of age demographics for the region. It attempts to compare similar medical conditions, but I believe McAllen has become a retiree center, both for people to move to permanently as well as the annual influx of snowbirds escaping northern winters.
It would be interesting to me if that data was also collected. I would expect it to take more money to treat the elderly than the general population.
While it does examine the first thoughts which come to mind in (the doctors own the hospitals and out-patient clinics), the article does not specifically mention an analysis of age demographics for the region. It attempts to compare similar medical conditions, but I believe McAllen has become a retiree center, both for people to move to permanently as well as the annual influx of snowbirds escaping northern winters.
It would be interesting to me if that data was also collected. I would expect it to take more money to treat the elderly than the general population.
posted by Kurt at 8:12 AM
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Can't tell from the article if the demographics are truly comparable but the writer does say the comparison was between Medicare patients. Another variable not accounted for was El Paso's proximity to Mexico. How many El Paso folks are being treated across the border?
McAllen is also a border city, though. And currently, there is a little less violence on the streets across from McAllen than in Juarez.
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