Houston Voters Weigh $2.5 Billion Bond Sale for Public Hospitals
- More than half of proceeds will go to replacing LBJ Hospital
- Harris County has the highest number of uninsured in the US
Downtown in Houston, Texas.
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Houston’s public hospitals serving the city’s neediest have some needs of their own. Steam and water pipes bursting at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital have burned patients and staff, and sewage has backed up into Ben Taub Hospital’s pharmacy.
If denizens of Harris County, home to the nation’s fourth-largest city, approve a $2.5 billion bond referendum on Tuesday, the more-than-30-year-old hospitals will get makeovers, and health-care services for the region’s indigent residents will be expanded. More than half of the proceeds will go to replacing LBJ Hospital.