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Colin Allred: “We're going to see higher property taxes as a result of…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Colin Allred on TX-33 Race, Democratic Divide & Talarico Tensions | Tashara Parker Show

Published | Video Starts at 39:41

Right. And so we're going to see even more hospital closures in our state. We've already had a whole bunch of that going on, particularly in our rural communities. We're going to see higher property taxes as a result of that, because if people don't get health care, they're going to get health care. They're just going to get it at the emergency room. and they're going to get it at Parkland. Right. And it's going to be born by the entire community as a surgery for an ulcer that burst instead of a pill they could have taken a year earlier for a dollar. (39:41–39:52)

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Predicts higher property taxes due to increased emergency room visits from uninsured individuals.

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