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This from Helen Marshall:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/News/ci_27410944
So Mr. Valenti says that UMC cannot consider bidding for the provision of medical services to county jail inmates, at $8 million bucks, as UMC is too busy fighting with Children’s Hospital about its debt.
BRILLIANT!!!! Increase his bonus!!!!
(IF I were an advocate for prisoners, I’d be very leery of allowing UMC to treat them, given the attitude of the ER doctors to authority – took a million dollar lawsuit to get them to understand that running anal and vaginal and other explorations on a woman’s body for hours, just because the CBP told them to, was not medical treatment…and speaking of that, it would reduce the UMC debt a bit if they didn’t have to pay out on such a lawsuit…)
I think maybe it’s time to stop reading the paper.
elpasospeak 
I already did stop reading that rag, when they blocked most of the content online, and also either blocked or deleted disqus. Funny thing is that it was a no brainer that R. E. Thomason, the old County hospital, always was responsible for providing medical care to prisoners in the County Jail. So, where is the Sheriff supposed to seek care for those in his care?
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With his bonus plan, which pays regardless of performance, Valenti has no incentive to try to bring in the $8 mil, especially if it means he might have to work harder.
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