Abbott’s H-1B Freeze to Impact Health Care Sector: Texas Brief

H-1B Freeze to Hit Health-Care Providers

Fewer potential doctors, worse medical innovation, and poorer health-care for Texans. That’s what experts told Andrew Kreighbaum the repercussions could be of Gov. Greg Abbott’s H-1B hiring freeze for public employers, which he issued last month to block “bad actors” who he alleges exploit the visa program.

Universities and academic health science centers are the biggest users of the specialty occupation visa among Texas’ public employers. The US approved H-1B visas for more than 1,700 Houston-based University of Texas Health Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center employees over a recent four-year period alone.

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