Mrs. Mora
Eng 1A Pro Paper
21 October 2014
Prisoners and Their Health Care It has been said that effectively treating inmates with physical and mental illnesses, including substance abuse disorders, improves their well being and can reduce likelihood that they will commit new crimes or violate probation once they are released (Majer, Schluete, Wicklond 27). They believed that providing health care for inmates would help them to a better mindset and over all health, even if they were in facilities for mental illnesses or narcotic abuse. In other words, it is like giving them a second chance to prove themselves as decent human beings while being on parole. Should state prisons pay for prisoner health care? What changed the health …show more content…
Edwards, legislator analyst said that the legislatures conservative prediction is that federal payments for fiscal year 2014 which includes only six months under that years expansion rules, will reach fifty-two million about three percent of the states $1.6 billion prison health care bill. In 2015, the federal reimbursements are projected to a total of sixty-nine million (Vestal).
Most inmates in the California prisons were asked to sign an enrollment form for Medicaid, but they did not want to sign. So California passed a law allowing prison personal to fill out and sign the forms on behalf of the inmates, but only for services received while incarcerated.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) declared that paroles in January, twenty-two states will be expanding the Medicaid eligibility to all poor adults. The ACA stated that most inmates coming out of prison would likely become eligible. Also people who come out of prison are more susceptible to chronic diseases, mental illnesses, and addictive disorders. Health care experts estimate that up for thirty-five percent of those newly eligible for Medicaid under ACA are people with criminal justice system involvement, including jail and prison inmates and those who are on parole or probation