Inmates Dying After Governor Rick Scott Outsources Prison Health Care

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-bottari/inmates-die-in-droves-aft_b_5996012.html

Mary Bottari
The Center for Media and Democracy/ALEC Exposed



Co-authored by Jonas Persson

Suffering from lung cancer? Here's a Tylenol and some warm compresses. Are your intestines escaping? Not to worry; here's some K-Y Jelly to shove them back in.

Between 2008 and 2013, Corizon Health -- the country's largest prison health care provider -- was sued 660 times for malpractice. But Governor Rick Scott's administration failed to take note of this history when it awarded Corizon a $1.2 billion contract in 2011.

Now an investigation by The Palm Beach Post reveals that Florida inmates have been dying in droves since the state privatized prison health care.

In January 2014, three months after the privatization was fully implemented, the number of inmates who died "shot to a 10-year high," says the Post. In the past 10 years, there were only 10 months in which 30 or more inmates died. So far this year, the death count has "topped 30 a total of four times in just seven months." This is a dramatic increase from 12.5 percent to 57 percent. The investigation also found that the number of referrals for outside hospital care is down by 47 percent compared to 2012.

FULL story at link.

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Rick Scott and Healthcare fraud are indistinguishable.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. For-profit healthcare at its worst

Add this to his refusal to accept Medicare expansion and I think we can safely say Governor Scott is a one man death panel. Disgusting.

[davidn3600]

3. Florida prison conditions not likely to improve under "Chain Gang Charlie" either

[woo me with science]

4. This is the future in corporate-governed America.

This is what your politicians are doing, folks. And they are being rewarded handsomely for doing it.

They don't work for you anymore.

[Electric Monk]

5. Imagine how it'll play out once the first inmate tests positive for Ebola...

I think it's more a matter of when than if. Might it be this year? Probably not. But next year maybe? 2020? 2030?

[malaise]

6. Is his family cashing in again?

Have to wonder about the inmates 'organs'. Where did that war criminal of a dick get his heart?

[ReRe]

7. .