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| Op-Ed: Get it right on health care |
| By The Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 12/06/2007 |
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MICHIGAN - The state will have to delay for at least six months its plan to reform prison health care with regional managed-care contracts -- in effect, HMOs for inmates. The Department of Corrections received only three bids for eight contracts that the state had hoped to award next month. Seeking more qualified bidders, Corrections will now rework its proposal with the help of health care providers. The delay, while unwelcome, is another opportunity to get it right, including a better plan for independent oversight of prison health care and the potential removal of the current, primary provider of prisoner health care, Correctional Medical Services Inc., of Missouri. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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