Months after the city enrolled residents in an optional telehealth program, Garland voters will decide this spring if they are willing to pay a fee for telehealth services.
The Garland City Council in August approved an agreement with Dallas-based MD Health Pathways to enroll residents in its Tap Telehealth program for a monthly fee added to their utility bills. Now, residents say the decision should have been theirs from the beginning.
“If it’s going to be put, especially on a utility bill that most people aren’t going to pay attention to, we should know about it. We should vote,” Garland resident John Laton Bowles said at a recent council meeting. “We should look at all the other options out there to do something like this.”…