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Time for medicare for all in the usa also the million-dollar heart transplant is loaded with markup where you can likely go out side of the usa and pay way less for it.

also due to court rulings in favor of inmate care you can just go to prison / jail to get one as well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pr...

Boy, is that ever the exception that proves the rule. In order to get a heart transplant somebody had to sue the California prison system for him.

If they didn't want to pay for it, they could have released him on parole. He was sentenced for burglary and robbery. A patient with heart failure isn't going to be able to commit any more burglaries and robberies. He'll be lucky if he can walk around the block.

Despite this unusual example, prisoners have some of the worst health care in the country.

I read a series of articles on prison health care by Andrew Skolnick in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998 http://www.aaskolnick.com/new/... and I've seen dozens of articles since then to show that it hasn't gotten any better (it couldn't get worse).

They were leaving diabetic patients to die in their cells without insulin. Dozens of patients died because doctors and nurses simply ignored them and didn't give them their regular medication.

Sue, you say? It's almost impossible for a prisoner or his estate to sue the prison or the private contractor in most prisons, Correctional Medical Services.

There was a provision in a lot of states by which a doctor who was convicted of sexually abusing patients or dealing drugs would get his license reinstated but limited only to treating prisoners, so many of the prison doctors had worse convictions than their patients.

Don't forget, a lot of these prisoners were in because of the war on drugs.

Journalists know that if you want to do a sensational investigative story, write about prison health care. The New York Times did a series a while back:

https://www.google.com/webhp?r...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02...

HARSH MEDICINE
As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
Published: February 27, 2005

Brian Tetrault was 44 when he was led into a dim county jail cell in upstate New York in 2001, charged with taking some skis and other items from his ex-wife's home. A former nuclear scientist who had struggled with Parkinson's disease, he began to die almost immediately, and state investigators would later discover why: The jail's medical director had cut off all but a few of the 32 pills he needed each day to quell his tremors.

Candy Brown died in September 2000, investigators say, when her withdrawal from heroin went untreated in this Rochester jail cell, shown in a recent photo.

Aja Venny with a photo of her son, Scott Mayo Jr., and the urn holding his ashes. She lives in a Bronx apartment with her husband, Scott Mayo, and their daughter, Skye, who is at her mother's knee.

HARSH MEDICINE
The New York Times's yearlong examination of Prison Health Services, the biggest commercial provider of medical care to inmates, found instances of disturbing deaths and other troubling treatment.

DAY 1: Dying Behind Bars

DAY 2: Lost Files, Lost Lives

DAY 3: Mistreating Tiffany

I'm glad your local jail is well-staffed, although I don't know where it is. If it's a good program, it's unusual.

According to the Journal of the American Medical association, prison health care is bad around the country. One of the problems is that services are contracted out to a few big corporations, like Correctional Medical Services, which according to JAMA was providing incompetent care which led to many deaths. Another problem is sheer budget-cutting.

http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98a.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98b.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98c.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc1.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc2.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc3.htm

That was the most comprehensive series. Here are some more recent stories:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/jailhouse_doc.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/4/harsh_medicine_new_york_times_exposes
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/care-prison-healthcare.html

Parent said, "Prisoners receive better medical care than most Americans, and it's illegal to let them go untreated."

It's not true that prisoners receive better care than most Americans. If it is, I'd like to see the supporting data.

It may be illegal to let them go untreated. So it's illegal. Prisons do it all the time. Many organizations are suing prisons over health care, and often getting court orders. Sometimes the prisons respond to the court orders, and sometimes they don't.

If they get arbitrary 10% budget cuts, as they did in Texas, they couldn't improve their health care even if they wanted to.

I'm glad your local jail is well-staffed, although I don't know where it is. If it's a good program, it's unusual.

According to the Journal of the American Medical association, prison health care is bad around the country. One of the problems is that services are contracted out to a few big corporations, like Correctional Medical Services, which according to JAMA was providing incompetent care which led to many deaths. Another problem is sheer budget-cutting.

http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98a.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98b.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98c.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc1.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc2.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc3.htm

That was the most comprehensive series. Here are some more recent stories:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/jailhouse_doc.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/4/harsh_medicine_new_york_times_exposes
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/care-prison-healthcare.html

Parent said, "Prisoners receive better medical care than most Americans, and it's illegal to let them go untreated."

It's not true that prisoners receive better care than most Americans. If it is, I'd like to see the supporting data.

It may be illegal to let them go untreated. So it's illegal. Prisons do it all the time. Many organizations are suing prisons over health care, and often getting court orders. Sometimes the prisons respond to the court orders, and sometimes they don't.

If they get arbitrary 10% budget cuts, as they did in Texas, they couldn't improve their health care even if they wanted to.

I'm glad your local jail is well-staffed, although I don't know where it is. If it's a good program, it's unusual.

According to the Journal of the American Medical association, prison health care is bad around the country. One of the problems is that services are contracted out to a few big corporations, like Correctional Medical Services, which according to JAMA was providing incompetent care which led to many deaths. Another problem is sheer budget-cutting.

http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98a.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98b.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98c.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc1.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc2.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc3.htm

That was the most comprehensive series. Here are some more recent stories:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/jailhouse_doc.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/4/harsh_medicine_new_york_times_exposes
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/care-prison-healthcare.html

Parent said, "Prisoners receive better medical care than most Americans, and it's illegal to let them go untreated."

It's not true that prisoners receive better care than most Americans. If it is, I'd like to see the supporting data.

It may be illegal to let them go untreated. So it's illegal. Prisons do it all the time. Many organizations are suing prisons over health care, and often getting court orders. Sometimes the prisons respond to the court orders, and sometimes they don't.

If they get arbitrary 10% budget cuts, as they did in Texas, they couldn't improve their health care even if they wanted to.

I'm glad your local jail is well-staffed, although I don't know where it is. If it's a good program, it's unusual.

According to the Journal of the American Medical association, prison health care is bad around the country. One of the problems is that services are contracted out to a few big corporations, like Correctional Medical Services, which according to JAMA was providing incompetent care which led to many deaths. Another problem is sheer budget-cutting.

http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98a.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98b.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98c.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc1.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc2.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc3.htm

That was the most comprehensive series. Here are some more recent stories:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/jailhouse_doc.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/4/harsh_medicine_new_york_times_exposes
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/care-prison-healthcare.html

Parent said, "Prisoners receive better medical care than most Americans, and it's illegal to let them go untreated."

It's not true that prisoners receive better care than most Americans. If it is, I'd like to see the supporting data.

It may be illegal to let them go untreated. So it's illegal. Prisons do it all the time. Many organizations are suing prisons over health care, and often getting court orders. Sometimes the prisons respond to the court orders, and sometimes they don't.

If they get arbitrary 10% budget cuts, as they did in Texas, they couldn't improve their health care even if they wanted to.

I'm glad your local jail is well-staffed, although I don't know where it is. If it's a good program, it's unusual.

According to the Journal of the American Medical association, prison health care is bad around the country. One of the problems is that services are contracted out to a few big corporations, like Correctional Medical Services, which according to JAMA was providing incompetent care which led to many deaths. Another problem is sheer budget-cutting.

http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98a.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98b.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98c.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc1.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc2.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc3.htm

That was the most comprehensive series. Here are some more recent stories:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/jailhouse_doc.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/4/harsh_medicine_new_york_times_exposes
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/care-prison-healthcare.html

Parent said, "Prisoners receive better medical care than most Americans, and it's illegal to let them go untreated."

It's not true that prisoners receive better care than most Americans. If it is, I'd like to see the supporting data.

It may be illegal to let them go untreated. So it's illegal. Prisons do it all the time. Many organizations are suing prisons over health care, and often getting court orders. Sometimes the prisons respond to the court orders, and sometimes they don't.

If they get arbitrary 10% budget cuts, as they did in Texas, they couldn't improve their health care even if they wanted to.

I'm glad your local jail is well-staffed, although I don't know where it is. If it's a good program, it's unusual.

According to the Journal of the American Medical association, prison health care is bad around the country. One of the problems is that services are contracted out to a few big corporations, like Correctional Medical Services, which according to JAMA was providing incompetent care which led to many deaths. Another problem is sheer budget-cutting.

http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98a.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98b.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/jama/28oct98c.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc1.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc2.htm
http://www.aaskolnick.com/baddoc3.htm

That was the most comprehensive series. Here are some more recent stories:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/jailhouse_doc.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/4/harsh_medicine_new_york_times_exposes
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/care-prison-healthcare.html

Parent said, "Prisoners receive better medical care than most Americans, and it's illegal to let them go untreated."

It's not true that prisoners receive better care than most Americans. If it is, I'd like to see the supporting data.

It may be illegal to let them go untreated. So it's illegal. Prisons do it all the time. Many organizations are suing prisons over health care, and often getting court orders. Sometimes the prisons respond to the court orders, and sometimes they don't.

If they get arbitrary 10% budget cuts, as they did in Texas, they couldn't improve their health care even if they wanted to.

On peer review:

http://www.aaskolnick.com/naswmav.htm

"There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print."

Incidentally, Wikipedia pointed me to that source.

wow.. right outta 1984, editing history on the fly. It could have just been a typo but why not just own up to it?

Want to see something scarier than newspapers silently revising things? How about the whitehouse? Here is a video clip of George W. claiming we've been alies with japan for a century and a half, and heres the original whitehouse transcript (mirrored) that quietly changes "because for a century and a half now" (which is clearly what he says in the video) to "because for half a century now".

Only after the whitehouse got made a mockery of in the press and on the internet did they finnally do the right thing and update their transcript to say what it should've said in the first place (an accurate transcript of what he actually said, with a '**' noting what he meant to say).

Of course, there was no public acknowledgement that the initial transcript was inaccurate and only changed due to public outcry; but I saw it when the "smoking gun" (inaccurate) transcript was still up at whitehouse.gov, and I can tell you for 100% certain that they actually did this.

The inevitable direct 1984/Eastasia (hey, his speech says eastasia) comparison is here (linking to the google cache because some asshole hacked that site so the original is down).

Theres numerous other examples of the bush whitehouse revising transcripts so they don't make the president look like such a dolt. There was a interesting article I saw about it a few days ago, that mentioned this example and several others (including rumsfeld transcripts being revised too) but even with google I am unable to find it now. If anyone knows the article I'm thinking of, please post a link.