Texas has a very strong health care system. Physicians are doing a wonderful job meeting needs under difficult circumstances.

Texas' own view is this approach is meeting their needs.

The Medicaid program that ... we finalized today is a program to make sure the health care of the evacuees is paid for by the federal government and is not an added burden to the state of Texas,

Texas will be made whole, and the needs of people will continue to come first.

Part of the problem is our fault as physicians and health-care providers.

It's typical for the physicians to contact the health department when there is something like this that's contagious. Any communicable disease, we try to follow up on.