Health Care Reform & The Justice-Involved Population

Here’s a question you may not of have asked yourself – what changes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will affect “justice-involved consumers”? Because this might turn out to be a large group as “contact with the criminal justice system” could describe up to 30% of people in the Medicaid expansion population (see Federal Estimates Indicate Former Inmates & Detainees Will Constitute About 30% Of People In The Medicaid Expansion Population), this is a question, the importance of which is increasing.

Historically, most adults involved in the criminal justice system did not have access to Medicaid . . .