Comments on: Prison Health Care Privatization Contract Signed

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:12:03 +0000

This, IMO, is all about exploiting tax payer dollars. Corporatist Politicians bought by Wall Street type Lobbyist to use our tax dollars to make themselves wealthy.

Instead of providing health care at cost and paying for it, now we are feeding tax dollars to a “For-Profit” corporation. These dollars that we will be using were also in part dollars that we use to use to people with getting mental health. So now that we don’t offer those services, we need more Law Enforcement to fill up the jails and more “Private owned For-Profit” Jail will of course need to be built.

The GOP hate, fear and smear rhetoric toward a make believe Liberal goal of socialism has lead the way and opened the doors to Corporatist Fascism. The baby-boomer version of Conservatism is not about Conservatism what so ever.

By: Pappa

Pappa — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:54:42 +0000

And what will the citizens of Florida start doing when inmates start turning up dead left and right because of poor health care from the “private” health care system, just as they have in other states that privatized health care for their inmates.

Just remember those “cost savings” are mostly from staffing and pay cuts, which lead to fewer and less qualified staff to handle the inmate population.

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:17:05 +0000

I wonder if Rick Scott will go to President Obama and ask him for help because this layoff will hurt “the livelihood of Florida families”, just as he did for the Longshoremen?