Officials also said Texas Vista was being “choked out by the well-heeled ‘public’ hospital competitor across town,” referring to University Health, the county’s public hospital system.responded at the time that Steward had sought a multimillion-dollar taxpayer bailout from the county.plans to build a 140-bed hospitalTexas Vista’s closure isn’t just a Southside issue, Councilwoman Adriana Rocha Garcia said during a committee meeting last week. “This impacts all of San Antonio.
San Antonio as a whole has more than five hospital beds for every 1,000 people, Drennon told the committee Thursday, but those beds are primarily on the more affluent and white North Side of the city.
The typical model of supply and demand does not apply to the private health care industry, she said. “By definition, private sector goods and services follow the money.