Oregon country enrolls inmates in Obamacare to get federal subsidies...

This is what happens when lawmakers pass an 2000 page bill without reading it. Unexpected cost shifting...

Backers have promoted the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion as a way to reduce health care costs for many Americans.
Multnomah County officials expect national health care reform to cut the county's medical bills, too.
By enrolling jail inmates in nationally subsidized healthcare -- best known as "Obamacare" to both the President and his critics -- the county could bill the federal government for the cost of providing some of them medical care.
County health department officials briefed Multnomah County commissioners on the issue this week.
In addition to saving the county money, enrolling inmates in Obamacare would also mean a significant percentage will now have insurance when their jail stay is done.

A Double Irony

An inmate in Ohio was scheduled to be put to put to death by a lethal injection of drugs in a few hours. How does he respond? He tries to commit suicide by a lethal overdose. How does the state respond? They save his life and put him on suicide watch. He execution has been rescheduled for next week. This inmate wants to die to keep the state from killing him and the state wants to keep him alive so they can put him to death. Oh, the irony.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.

Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., ...