Indiana State Hospitals: No to Privatization

by   |  February 14, 2008

Two years ago, members of AFSCME Council 62 vigorously protested state plans to outsource three Indiana state hospitals in Richmond, Evansville and Madison. The jobs of some 750 RNs, psychiatric attendants and behavioral technicians represented by the council were threatened by the scheme. Family and Social Services Administration Sec. Mitch Roob ignored those protests. But last month, he finally – and formally – acknowledged what AFSCME has maintained all along: Privatization does not save money. David Warrick, Council 62’s executive director and an International vice president, says Indiana state officials …

“… had to admit they couldn’t privatize the hospital without costing the taxpayers more money than it would take for the state to run it.”

Read more about the decision to drop the privatization scheme in these stories in The Indianapolis Star and the Palladium-Item.