The Benefits of Expanding Healthcare Access to People at Risk of Committing Criminal Offenses

Jeffrey Toobin: There's a lot of benefits potentially to focusing more on healthcare services. Extending healthcare access to people at risk of committing criminal offenses can reduce the odds that they'll do so, he says. Toobin: What if people who already had access to healthcare never lost it? I especially find a more pronounced increase in incarceration for those individuals that had some point had been filing claims for mental health medications before losing access to Medicaid eligibility.