In turn, smaller supply companies have grown up in McAllen and Harlingen, where land is cheaper.
Every incentive in the system is an invitation to go the way McAllen has gone.
Cities like Miami and McAllen, Tex. are often held up as examples of wasteful Medicare spending.
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Three Texas metro areas--McAllen, Brownsville and College Station--all make the list because of low incomes.
McAllen has another distinction, too: it is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country.
Several doctors who were unhappy about the direction medicine had taken in McAllen told me the same thing.
McAllen costs Medicare seven thousand dollars more per person each year than does the average city in America.
Ahlenius is on the right track when he says that McAllen is helping host meetups for entrepreneurs and inventors.
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But he had never been asked for a kickback before coming to McAllen.
But in McAllen, the administrator thought, that percentage would be a lot less.
With financial backing from a Dallas utility, he would build the first fiber link between McAllen and Corpus Christi, Tex.
For folks growing up in McAllen at the time, it was unthinkable that a Catholic priest would commit such a crime.
The numbers of Guatemalans passing through the area increased so much recently that the country opened a consulate in McAllen, Texas.
For much of her cash, Clinton can thank one man Alonzo Cantu, the second-generation head of a construction company in McAllen.
The real puzzle of American health care, I realized on the airplane home, is not why McAllen is different from El Paso.
Was the explanation, then, that McAllen was providing unusually good health care?
Then why do hospitals in McAllen order so much more surgery and scans and tests than hospitals in El Paso and elsewhere?
Nor does the care given in McAllen stand out for its quality.
About fifteen years ago, it seems, something began to change in McAllen.
Associated Press writer Christopher Sherman contributed to this report from McAllen, Texas.
Instead, McAllen and other cities like it have to be weaned away from their untenably fragmented, quantity-driven systems of health care, step by step.
At Renaissance, I talked with a neonatologist who trained at my hospital, in Boston, and brought McAllen new skills and technologies for premature babies.
The bad news is that these data make it clear that it will be much more difficult to do that than the McAllen bashers thought.
Everyone agreed that something fundamental had changed since the days when health-care costs in McAllen were the same as those in El Paso and elsewhere.
Clinton has events scheduled in McAllen, Robstown and San Antonio, Texas.
McAllen, Texas, the most expensive town in the most expensive country for health care in the world, seemed a good place to look for some answers.
Compared with patients in El Paso and nationwide, patients in McAllen got more of pretty much everything more diagnostic testing, more hospital treatment, more surgery, more home care.
Raleigh saw its population expand by 18% in the first half of the last decade, and McAllen and Austin each had 16% population growth during those five years.
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