Question:
Angry that the prisoners are getting preferable treatment over law abiding people, I am calling for health care to be abolished for prisoners or forcing the prisoners to pay 100 % of the medical costs including surgery. My ideology includes prisoners convicted of crimes to be denied health care in prisons, sacking nurses and doctors in prisons, and transfer the basic health responsibilities to the prison guards who should have the power to decide if the prisoner is entitled to health care or not. Also should the guard refuse health care to the prisoners they aren't liable or responsible for the prisoner's welfare regardless of the consequences.

Answer: Prison insiders have also spoken of their anger, saying Wales - serving a minimum 24 years for murdering his mother and stepfather - was operated on before other more worthy patients. Wales, 36, had surgery on his legs in the secure ward at St Vincent's Hospital on Thursday. According to Corrections Victoria commissioner Kelvin Anderson, the double murderer had suffered a painful and long-standing condition and waited longer than the average patient to have the operation. Wales was deemed a non-urgent patient, but Mr Anderson said Wales had been in danger of developing blood clots within his varicose veins. Mr Anderson said Wales waited 1014 days, while the average wait within Victoria was 352 days for elective surgery. Monica Millar, 61, had already been waiting for a year to have her varicose veins removed at St Vincent's before being told yesterday she may have to wait a further three years. The Hawthorn woman, like Wales, is classed as a non-urgent patient. "It's absolutely disgusting. Here he is, a criminal, getting preferential treatment," she said. She said a recent back injury had exacerbated pain caused by the varicose veins in her left leg, forcing her to take anti-inflammatories and painkillers. Ms Millar hopes surgery to remove the veins will ease the pain, but she admitted the main reason she wanted the veins removed was to improve the appearance of her leg. Figures from the Department of Human Services reveal Victorians are enduring long waits for varicose veins surgery. Under department standards, non-urgent patients should be waiting no longer than one year for surgery but at Dandenong Hospital, patients must wait up to four years and one month. Varicose veins patients at Geelong Hospital and the Monash Medical Centre are waiting more than three years.