More inspectors would be hired to scour compounding pharmacies following the outbreak of fungal meningitis blamed on a Framingham drug business, under the budget Governor Deval Patrick proposed Wednesday. And the state would resume coverage of full dental care for low-income adults next January, lifting the current prohibition on paying for fillings in back teeth.
Hospitals, which have balked at years of state spending cuts, would receive nearly $30 million more, or roughly a 5 percent rate increase, for their care of low-income patients, and $34 million would be used for implementing health care cost-control legislation passed last year.
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Massachusetts is not big on inspections. It seems like many food establishments have forgotten to sweep and mop floors in food prep areas. A friend of mine says health care facilities in Mass don't get surprise visit audits that other states utilize to insure proper care foourselves loved ones. Now, we have the Farmington pharmacy mess. Either use the inspectors or cut the budgets for mass transit.
Inspections of this or any sort on private enterprise are derided and excoriated as the corrosive hands of government stifling free enterprise. Until one has to contemplate this kind of murderous mendacity in sensitive key medical compounding sectors. Then the garment rending histrionics of the tea bag right fade to a resounding silence. A useful example to keep in mind when considering all the cheap shots government regulation has to ansorb in our daily lives.
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