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| Florida's privatization of prison health care still locked up in disputes |
| By tampabay.com - Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau |
| Published: 07/02/2012 |
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TALLAHASSEE — Change never comes easily to Florida's prison system. It has been more than a year since the Legislature ordered the agency to privatize inmate health care to save money, the largest project of its kind ever attempted in the United States. It still hasn't happened, leaving unfulfilled Gov. Rick Scott's campaign promise to "competitively bid health care contracts." In the past year, Scott ousted the corrections secretary who initiated the project, and two unions filed suit to derail it. Florida's new fiscal year began Sunday with state employees still dispensing drugs, giving checkups and tending to the aches and pains of the 100,000 men and women in the nation's third-largest prison system. Read More. |
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