Vendors push for prison health care privatization - Houston Chronicle

Private companies are lining up to grab a piece of the action of the nearly $1 billion health care system for Texas prison inmates, according to a newspaper report published Sunday.
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Presently, state law places the responsibility for the health care of 154,000 state inmates with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center....

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