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Can UTMB provide constitutional levels of healthcare after prison staffing cuts?

KUT ran a report this week (audio here) focused on recent layoffs at UTMB's Correctional Managed Care program titled "Paying for Healthcare in Texas Prisons," in which yours truly was quoted declaring ?In some ways, it?s a game of chicken because the feds can always come in and do what they did in California and say, you know you can?t scale back that much.?I find it hard to understand how the agency could let go so many nurses, dentists, and other on the ground personnel and still provide constitutional levels of care. If they do not, I further doubt the Justice Department under Obama/Holder will be nearly as reticent to intervene in Texas as was DOJ under Bush/Gonzales (that is, if the Administration would ever nominate any US Attorneys for Texas)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 17, 2010 (boomark / email).