Sick? No Insurance? Get Yourself Arrested.
You may not be free, but you won't be dead or bankrupt. And you'll get free yoga classes!
This is for the estimated 47 million Americans without health insurance. If you catch a serious illness, you might want to consider coming to California and getting yourself arrested.
Even though the state is facing a $42 BILLION budget deficit, a federal court has ordered it to upgrade its prison health facilities. Seems when Californians passed the 3 Strikes law and its politicians began spending more on prisons than on higher education, they neglected to account for the added costs of treating all those new inmates when they got sick or hurt. Now, they–that is, the taxpayers–are going to have to pay the piper. From the SF Chronicle (emphasis added):
… recommendations called on the cash-starved state to spend $8 billion on seven new hospitals - each roughly the size of 10 Wal-Mart stores - to replace a decrepit health care system that a federal judge says is killing an average of one inmate per week …
So, the fact that one inmate a week is dying in California because of the state’s dilapidated heathcare system is enough of an outrage that a federal judge is prepared to force the state to spend $8 billion that it doesn’t have to fix the situation. Meanwhile, 18,000 law-abiding Americans die every year because they do not have adequate medical coverage and the bought-off career politicians running our government do nothing about it. In the twisted world of modern America, it seems people have to commit a crime to receive medical care. And not just basic care either. We’re talking cutting edge stuff here:
The draft report … said the new hospitals’ environment “should be ‘holistic’ in expression.”
“In the place of sterile prison corridors or barren, large-scale ‘yards,’ both staff and patient should experience landscaped courtyards and places of rest and respite,” the draft said.
What kind of amenities and “places of rest and respite” can inmates look forward to?
– Workout rooms to “promote wellness,” featuring exercise machines and space for “therapeutic activities such as aerobics, yoga, (and) group exercise.” Plus handball courts.
– Outdoor courtyards “where patients will be encouraged to participate in recreational therapy programs such as horticulture.”
– Gymnasiums with a basketball court and a music room, a crafts room, game room and therapy kitchen.
– Outdoor running tracks.
To recap: sick citizens who follow the law but lack health insurance can expect substandard care and financial ruin. Convicted felons, though, can look forward to free treatment and horticulture classes while they recuperate.
When did Franz Kakfa start writing our country’s our healthcare policies?
To recap: sick citizens who follow the law but lack health insurance can expect substandard care and financial ruin. Convicted felons, though, can look forward to free treatment and horticulture classes while they recuperate.
this is absolutely not true- there were some stretched ideas that were tossed around and none will come to pass. All that is needed is proper and good healthcare….its important to do research into fact and not fiction….There are way more updated and correct articles to cite than what has been taken here to create public outrage!!