You know I get confused at times as just last week the Governor asked Paulsen for a 7 billion dollar loan, which doesn’t even complete the cost ordered by the judge here of 8 billion. We just finally got a budget here too so checks just started rolling out for hospitals and other facilities that see Medicaid patients. BD
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson made it clear Monday he expects California to pay $8 billion for seven new inmate medical facilities. But he stopped short of immediately holding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Controller John Chiang in contempt for failing to turn over the money.
Medical care in California's prisons is so bad it has been ruled unconstitutional. Henderson appointed a receiver to run the prison medical system after finding that an average of an inmate a week was dying from neglect or malpractice.
The judge says he is likely to order the state to pay $250 million as a first installment to demonstrate good faith.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gunrXFtgHU0w1G5y0fQGyKutU0ygD93LJI682
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