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"The human cost of cutting Medicaid to people leaving prison."
Media Source:
InvestigateWestMedia URL:
https://www.investigatewest.org/investigatewest-reports/oregon-quietly-halted-a-new-medicaid-program-for-people-leaving-prison-whether-it-goes-forward-may-be-up-to-the-trump-administration-17952143?utm_source=InvestigateWest&utm_campaign=9b6ee89130-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_09_16_10_21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d705faa21a-9b6ee89130-167279576Date:
2025/07/23Summary:
The Oregon Health Authority has delayed an innovative program that would have provided health services to people being released from jail or prison – with potentially devastating consequences. “Almost every single person in Oregon’s prison system is going to get out at some point,” explains Lewis & Clark Professor Aliza Kaplan. “If they don’t have the services they need, the treatment they need, the housing they need, then they’re not going to be successful.”
