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| Changes Proposed to Control Prison Health Care Costs |
| By news-medical.net |
| Published: 02/25/2010 |
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States struggle with funding health care for inmates, Medicaid cuts and funding health insurance for low-income residents in Minnestoa. The Columbia Missourian: "At a state budget hearing, Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, explored an unorthodox method to alleviate the corrections department's budget pressures. Kelly's proposal would allow elderly inmates to be granted parole and move into a nursing facility of the state's choice. Once prisoners are no longer incarcerated, they can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare and reduce health costs for the corrections department. Adult Prison Director Tom Clements said the state has 202 male and 7 female inmates over the age of 70. Clements said he didn't know how much money Kelly's idea would save the department, nor did he give a definitive response to Kelly's suggested course of action" (Krebs, 2/24). Read More. |
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