Posted on 05/16/2014 10:19:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
OAKLAND, Calif. -- It's been two months since Rodrigo Salido left the maximum security wing at Santa Rita jail, and two months without pills for his bipolar disorder.
Now Salido, who served two years for burglary, assault and gang involvement, has no health insurance and few options for refilling his medication.
California and 25 other states, under a provision of President Obama’s health law, opened up Medicaid to single and so-called “childless” adults. The change in eligibility criteria will extend Medicaid coverage to vast numbers of ex-offenders whose incomes are below the federal poverty line.
Men and women involved in the criminal justice system are more likely to be sicker than the general population, with higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, depression, mood disorders and alcohol and drug addiction. Many have spent years—perhaps their entire adult lives—without health insurance and have medical conditions that must be stabilized when they’re incarcerated.
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Well, that’s comforting.
This will cut down on crime. Who knew the main reason for repeat offenders was they needed health insurance?
Need your teeth cleaned? Rob a bank.
Thus Freddy the Freeloader tries to get the local beat cop to catch him breaking a window. So that he can be hauled off to jail, and then his gallbladder operation will be paid for.
An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
Too bad the price of that ounce is more than the pound.
How do you know?
free medical for life
for felons
how nice
Oh, this story makes me so sad.
That We the Taxpayers are STILL on the hook for these dirtbags, even after they get out of prison. Thanks, 0bama!
If he decides to commit more crime just to go back into the prison system where he can get care, that’s pretty expensive.
Sometimes,the answers are right in front of us.
I have knowledge from people I know in the business on how much reintegration processes cost down here. It is isn’t cheap.
-PJ
As the old saying goes, “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink”.
These mutts are released with a load of resources at their disposal for free (to them) and they typically just don’t follow up. You cannot make them take their pills so to speak if you are not with them 24/7.
The state doesn’t properly focus on mental illness because having untreated psychotics give Democrats the ammunition to bitch about guns and promote their overarching designs on society.
Here in the People’s Republic of New York, Medicaid reimburses heroin addicts for transportation costs to the methadone clinic so they can spit it out (or worse) on the streets to sell it to some worse degenerate and score the real stuff.
Compared to what?
I'm sure reintegration is not cheap, but every alternative has costs, some costs are hidden but anything but cheap.
In the case of the truly mentally ill, I have no issues with providing them psychiatric meds. Better he gets the meds than ends up a wandering homeless psychotic, much more likely to shove people in front of the commuter train because the voices in his head told him to.
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