City, contractor questioned at NYC jail health care hearing
Source: AP-Excite
By JAKE PEARSON
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City lawmaker said at a hearing Tuesday that he didn't have confidence in the leadership of the private health provider awarded a $126 million contract to administer health care at the Rikers Island jail complex.
Health Committee Chairman Corey Johnson, at times incensed, repeatedly cited a report by The Associated Press last year that raised serious questions about the medical care inmates received in at least 15 deaths since 2009. Those cases included inmates who were denied medication, improperly assessed or not treated in a timely manner.
"We can go through, case-by-case, but what are you doing to stop this?" Johnson asked executives of Brentwood, Tennessee-based Corizon Health Inc. after listing some of the deaths reported by the AP. "Because I don't want to come back, three years from now, after a contract's renewed and we have more of these awful cases that we're hearing about because people are being denied the treatment that they deserve."
Other lawmakers at the oversight hearing on inmate care questioned whether Corizon has performed well enough to have its three-year contract renewed when it expires Dec. 31. City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley suggested the city's public hospital system take over care; another lawmaker recommended the city partner with teaching hospitals to recruit a steady stream of young, enthusiastic doctors.
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Contract it out and people die. Nobody saw that coming?
But they are only criminals, so nobody cares. 
