Proponents say there are cost savings; critics say there are too many risks.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nowhere in Texas government has the ideological divide over privatization — and the potential pitfalls — been more pronounced than in the arena of health and human services.
Privatization critics say human services are the absolute last government functions that should be hired out. But in the past decade, the Legislature has hired Read the rest of this entry »

Proponents say there are cost savings; critics say there are too many risks.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nowhere in Texas government has the ideological divide over privatization — and the potential pitfalls — been more pronounced than in the arena of health and human services.
Privatization critics say human services are the absolute last government functions that should be hired out. But in the past decade, the Legislature has Read the rest of this entry »

A for-profit company based in Florida is fast-tracking its way toward ownership of Georgia’s mental health crisis as state officials tout privatization as a solution to treating the mentally ill.
As a hospital-based psychiatrist who regularly treats very difficult —- sometimes life-threatening —- mental and addictive diseases, I applaud the urgency Department of Human Resources Commissioner B.J. Walker has brought to the state’s Read the rest of this entry »

Under pressure to fix its mental health system, Georgia is embarking on an uncharted course: the total privatization of state psychiatric hospitals.
In an escalation of earlier plans for limited privatization, officials now want to hire for-profit companies to build and operate three new psychiatric facilities to replace all seven existing state hospitals, according to documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The last of the old facilities Read the rest of this entry »