That didn't take long. The threat of $6.5 Billion in emergency health care improvements for state inmates is already being implemented. The poor appointee Kelso has come away from meetings with Legislators with the opinion that they are petulant lying children. Well duh. You heard it here first but now the issue is front page headlines in this morning's LATimes:SACRAMENTO -- A court- appointed receiver vowed Thursday to raid California's depleted state treasury for billions of dollars as the state Senate's minority Republicans blocked -- for the second time in three days -- his plan to build prison medical beds.First a little correction. The Republicans didn't block, they assert that the court cases are not yet resolved and Kelso is jumping the gun.
The developments threatened to severely worsen the state's fiscal crisis while setting up a showdown with federal judges who have declared the standard of healthcare in state prisons to be unconstitutional.
Doesn't matter. The money isn't there.
2 comments:
Why the Capital "L" for the first letter of "Legislators".
Showing entirely too much respect.
Sure, give the prisoners universal health care - as it is practiced in most of the world:
Coronary care: aspirin, nitro, heparin. That's pretty much it (no bypass, no stent, no angio)
Dental care: restorations with the cheapest amalgam or pull it (no root canal)
Cancer: cheapest drug therapy, usually at least a decade old
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