Post by thinkinkmesa on May 25, 2013 16:35:30 GMT -5
Ohio inmates must juggle health-care costs
In his Friday letter "Inmates have pretty good health care," Steve Fedan seems to be comparing apples and oranges.
Collect-call phone rates affect primarily the families of prisoners, who foot the bill.
Health-care and medicine costs affect the prisoner directly. Ohio prisoners pay $2 per sick call, comparable to a co-pay, and even $2 can deter someone from seeking medical help until he is seriously ill, since most prisoners subsist on only $18 per month job pay.
More;
www.correctionsone.com/correctional-healthcare/articles/6247359-Ohio-inmates-must-juggle-health-care-costs/
In his Friday letter "Inmates have pretty good health care," Steve Fedan seems to be comparing apples and oranges.
Collect-call phone rates affect primarily the families of prisoners, who foot the bill.
Health-care and medicine costs affect the prisoner directly. Ohio prisoners pay $2 per sick call, comparable to a co-pay, and even $2 can deter someone from seeking medical help until he is seriously ill, since most prisoners subsist on only $18 per month job pay.
More;
www.correctionsone.com/correctional-healthcare/articles/6247359-Ohio-inmates-must-juggle-health-care-costs/