Medi-Cal’s Reliance on Prisoners to Make Cheaper Eyeglasses Proves Shortsighted ...Middle East

To dodge hefty costs for eyewear, California’s health insurance program for low-income people, Medi-Cal, has an innovative strategy: It contracts exclusively with the state’s prisons, and inmates make glasses for its beneficiaries. But the partnership that began more than 30 years ago has fractured. Medi-Cal enrollees, many of whom are children, and their eye care providers say that they often wait months for the glasses and that sometimes they arrive broken. “I understand the aim of trying to give prisoners a worthy occupation,” said Kelly Hardy, senior managing director of health and research for a California-based child advocacy group, Children Now. “But not at the expens

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