California prison inmates to get some Medicaid care

Associated Press ^ | 1/29/2023 | Associated Press

[Pol-92064]

The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday.

[Pol-92064]

DO the crime and then get the free bennies!

[lee martell]

So long as that benefit never means a personal check in a prisons pocket with a note: “To be used only for supplemental medical care!”

[Jim Noble]

I have worked tangent to prison medical care for many years.

One of the disadvantages of prison (as opposed to physical punishment and execution) is that it’s very expensive.

Just because someone is a prisoner, the medical standard of care does not change. States scrimp on prison medical care because they can.

Being mistreated is not part of the punishment.

I favor abolishing prison, but this would require the public to accept thousands of executions a year, which I doubt they are willing to do.

[Navy Patriot]

California prison inmates to get some Medicaid care

While January 6th Political Prisoners get none in Solitary.

[gunnut]

Probably so the feds can pay for sex change surgery.