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Yes, there are.In the Dallas/Fort Worth area:Parkland Health & Hospital System serves residents of Dallas County, and JPS Health Network serves Tarrant County residents. Both are taxpayer supported hospital districts and will assist people who can't pay for services.There are similar hospital districts in Bexar County (University Hospital in San Antonio) and Harris County (Houston.)M.D. Anderson in Houston is a wonderful cancer center that serves all Texans. https://www.mdanderson.org/documents/patients-and-family/becoming-our-patient/planning-for-care/Patient-Financial-Assistance-Overview.pdfMany Texas counties have smaller county hospitals.They will all require proof of your financial status, because they need to conserve funds for people who really need it. They may require you to apply for Medicaid if you qualify.There's a lot of misunderstanding about health care in America among both Americans (who should know better) and non Americans, who are just repeating what they hear.The truth is that hospitals that accept Medicare are required to assess and stabilize any patient regardless of ability to pay (EMTALA). It it's also true that many hospitals do more than that. Most private hospitals provide some degree of charity care.But it is not true, as some Americans with their heads in the sand want to believe, is that anybody can get all the care they need by going to an emergency room.So people without insurance should not give up, but look for any local resource they can find. And the rest of us should realize that the current system really is not good enough and figure out what needs to be done to make it better.

I've worked in 3 aspects of your question, as part-owner of a high end Chinese restaurant in a downtown location, a fundraiser and volunteer for a homeless charity, and in emergency services in conjunction with a hospital.FROM A CHARITY VIEW POINTNow first things first, I've worked with charities for years. I'm not blind to the issues of the homeless, food insecurity and such, but I know my next arguments will offend some readers. Giving money or food to panhandling or just giving food to the poor solves nothing, while giving the same money to a working recognized society of charity does much better good. The old adage, give a man a fish vs teaching a man to fish and all that. In the meantime, for anyone who gets offended, it's not intended to.(from Calgary Food Bank[1])More importantly, it's not efficient. A restaurant can give the odd meal out sure, but did you know that a food bank can usually stretch out each dollar to usually x3 to x5[2] more food than we (the public) can. With charities like the Leftovers Foundation and the Calgary Food Bank here in Calgary, the needy can get days of food over what a single restaurant can give in a single meal. And most importantly, they can handle the filtering needed to ensure the food gets to those in real need as opposed to the charlatans.FROM THE RESTAURANT VIEWPOINTSo let's first see it from the restaurant. Police are a welcome sight in restaurants that have a high incidence of homeless around. Unfortunately, some of them that are roaming can have mental illness issues or are outright thieves. Some would be harassing the hotel and restaurant guests for money. Running a business is hard enough, and having that added issue can be a no-win situation. If you give them food, word gets around and 1 becomes 10 and then becomes 20 and so on. But if the police drop by for coffee, food and so on, that's an issue the restaurant never worries about. Of course, we then would have some cops abusing the privilege too, like one detective treating his family to an 8-course dinner for free…(from Pinterest Atmos Hospitality[3])Except for the aforementioned detective, all were gracious and didn't go too far (the odd lunch or two). It came out to something like $200–300 a week, which was easily absorbed. If the restaurant hired a security guard or a bouncer, it would cost much more also ruin the restaurant dining atmosphere.And as a bonus, those same cops often would come as customers in their off hours (usually with a cop bonus discount), and would spread the word to their friends and families about that great restaurant that's cop-friendly. That gave us even one more HUGE bonus that we didn't expect, it kept the Montreal Chinese mafia off our backs. Aside of the odd mafia member who would come in to dine, we only had one huge issue with the mafia[4] during the restaurant's 14-year run (and that was strangely a pretty darn hilarious one). That in itself can’t even be measured in dollars.FROM THE POLICE VIEWPOINTAnd now speaking from the point of view of the cops and related emergency services. The cops usually don't abuse the privilege, and for the most part are quite thankful and were seen as friends. Sure they would be at the restaurant almost every day, but it's considered the cost of doing business.(from the Houston Chronicle[5])To the police officers we did deal with, this was part of their way of community outreach. Through getting to know the key businesses in the area, you also get to know the clientele and also get to see and be seen by the community that they were there doing their job and be approachable. And for most of our clientele also liked their presence as it made them feel safe for the most part, a little nervous maybe, but all of them were HUMAN.But being known as cop-friendly didn't mean we were immune to the government or the laws. That was never asked or expected. I had parking and speeding tickets. In fact, the only times I ever got out of such times was when I was in a car with a hot blonde officer who knew how to take advantage of her beauty, and the odd cop who recognized me from my hospital work. I would wager it would be the same regardless of which police department it is around the US and Canada.So in the end, it’s best to help the needy the RIGHT way as opposed to just thinking that a restaurant should be giving out free food to the needy. As I stated, it really doesn’t help anyone. And as for the restaurants and the cops, it’s really a mutually friendly unmentioned agreement that works well for both sides.EDIT: 2020–04–21 I was asked a few times about the Chinese Mafia incident in my restaurant. I’ve now answered it all here at Terry Lo's answer to What is the funniest restaurant incident you have seen?Footnotes[1] https://www.calgaryfoodbank.com/2017/whatwedo/[2] Stretching the Donor Dollar - Parkland Food Bank[3] Tse Yang - High End Chinese Restaurant | Chinese restaurant, Modern restaurant design, Chinese bar[4] Terry Lo's answer to What is the funniest restaurant incident you have seen?[5] Houston restaurant offers police officers free meal

With high-rise mixed-use dwellings, the full development of all arable farmland, and maybe the development of other lands to make them arable, perhaps. Texas has its Farmers’ Market road system that is the envy of every other State in the Union. It also has a tremendous amount of history.Texas has three sets of twinned cities: Dallas and Forth Worth, Austin and San Antonio, and Houston and Galveston. These three form a well-known triangle. Dallas and Houston are already well developed, but they could in theory rise even higher. Then Texas would have to build many high-speed rail lines to connect every two corners of the triangle—and reach out from Austin-San Antonio to El Paso, from Dallas-Fort Worth to Amarillo, and Houston-Galveston to Beaumont.When I lived in Houston, I attended Baylor College of Medicine. At the time, the Ben Taub General Hospital, the primary charity hospital in Harris County, had the best trauma center in all of Texas. Cadets from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences would elect to spend time assigned to the Emergency Center, there to learn how to manage every kind of gunshot, shotgun, and stab wound imaginable. As a core clinical clerk in surgery, I would guess half my caseload was from those kinds of trauma.Which is to say: Texas can handle anything such a tremendous immigration could dish out. But governance would be a real pain.