{"id":179668,"date":"2026-02-25T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:31:11","slug":"abbotts-h-1b-freeze-to-impact-health-care-sector-texas-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179668\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott\u2019s H-1B Freeze to Impact Health Care Sector: Texas Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"

H-1B Freeze to Hit Health-Care Providers<\/p>\n

Fewer potential doctors, worse medical innovation, and poorer health-care for Texans. That\u2019s what experts told Andrew Kreighbaum the repercussions could be of Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s H-1B hiring freeze<\/a> for public employers, which he issued last month<\/a> to block \u201cbad actors\u201d who he alleges exploit the visa program. <\/p>\n

Universities and academic health science centers are the biggest users of the specialty occupation visa among Texas\u2019 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. <\/p>\n

Rural …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"H-1B Freeze to Hit Health-Care Providers Fewer potential doctors, worse medical innovation, and poorer health-care for Texans. That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3436,10638,52225,72132,72134,7531,6786,20372,72133,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-179668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-corporate-officers","tag-customs-duties","tag-damages","tag-guest-workers","tag-juries","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-physicians","tag-temporary-work-visas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}