Health Care Reform Legislation Significantly Expands Health Insurance Coverage For Individuals Leaving Correctional Systems in 2014

Health Care Reform Legislation Significantly Expands Health Insurance Coverage For Individuals Leaving Correctional Systems In 2014
An important sidebar to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is its potential to significantly impact access to health care for individuals leaving correctional systems (and simultaneously reducing the budget impact on the states funding them). While the PPACA does not impact the provision of health care to individuals while incarcerated, a review of PPACA provisions by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, conducted under a grant from the federal Bureau of Justice, (see <a href="http://reentrypolicy.org/jc_publications/faqs . . .