GOPDD: Prison Inmates Received $7.7 Billion in Health Care Services Through Obamacare

By Dylan - Dec 9, 2015

WFB- Prison inmates received $7.7 billion in health care services in fiscal year 2011 through the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent report from Pew Charitable Trusts. 

According to the report, in January 2014, Obamacare created an opportunity for states that expanded their Medicaid program by giving them additional federal funds, which made it easier for them to provide coverage for inmates. By making coverage available to all individuals, including non-disabled adults without dependent children who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, states could allow convicts increasingly to receive coverage.

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