June 27, 2011
Sen. Michael Rubio: Inmates shouldn’t receive better health care than the rest of us
A few days ago, I read about a man in North Carolina who was unemployed, sick and without health insurance. In an act of desperation, he decided to rob a bank, but asked that the clerk give him only one dollar. He then calmly waited for the police to arrive and arrest him.
The gentleman had apparently lost his job as a soda delivery man. His ongoing pain from arthritis, slipped disks and a growth on his chest had now driven him to do the unthinkable, all for the sake of being able to see a doctor.
Inmates today receive better and more efficient health care than hardworking people who have fallen on hard times or that have courageously defended our nation. This injustice is precisely why I introduced SB 484, which would require the prison system to cut health care spending per inmate to no more than the state pays per patient for low-income people on Medi-Cal by 2015...
LINK - Bakersfield.com
