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As Texas' prison health system falters, will California follow suit?

Stuart Bussey at California Weekly has picked up on the fact that Texas' approach to prison healthcare isn't all it's cracked up to be:It came from out of nowhere: a? too-good-to-be-true? proposal that would purportedly slash costs for California?s prison healthcare system through the expanded use of telemedicine. Now suddenly, without any appropriate vetting or study, this proposal is being touted as a sound, fully baked solution. It is not. Instead, it?s a sales proposal from a for-profit Texas corporation with only six employees, and with financial problems of its own. This company is looking to sell California hundreds of million of dollars in telemedicine equipment along with a whole lot of empty promises.The private company, NuPhysicia, is an offshoot of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) ? a public university in Texas that took over care of Texas inmates in 1994...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).