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| OpEd: Close look at receivership |
| By The Sacramento Bee |
| Published: 02/02/2009 |
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CALIFORNIA - Four years after a federal court took the drastic step of placing California's prison medical system in federal receivership, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown want to end it. The receiver's job, declared the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2005, was to "reverse the entrenched paralysis and dysfunction, and bring the delivery of health care in California prisons up to constitutional standards." Certainly, the receiver has made progress, especially in filling doctor and nurse vacancies. But should the receivership end just as it is beginning to show results? Given the state's history, you can be sure that things would immediately freeze in place – with a likelihood of backsliding to where we were three years ago. One positive development is that the parties agreed to have the inspector general inspect each state prison once a year and evaluate key areas of medical care to determine if the state is making progress toward constitutional standards. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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