Health Care on the Line: How Affordable Care Act kept me out of prison [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 11/16/204:00 AM

By Chandra Bozelko, Center for Health Journalism, November 9, 2020

During the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett, the newest Supreme Court Justice, Democratic senators displayed poster-size photos of people who could lose their health insurance if the Supreme Court rules the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional in Texas v. California.

One of those photos could have been my release mugshot, taken on March 18, 2014 as I left prison after more than six years inside.

When I came home, I held in one hand prescriptions for four medications and, in the other, an order from the Court Support Services Division that I had to engage in “mental health treatment,” meaning psychotherapy, as a condition of my probation.

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