“According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, roughly 50,000 people in West Virginia last year received the substance abuse treatment they desperately need thanks to the expansion of Medicaid contained in the Affordable Care Act. 50,000 people. What will happen to them if they can't get the treatment they need to combat their drug addiction? How many will die or put others in harms way if Trump and McConnell succeed in cutting Medicaid by over $800 billion?
“Our job must be to develop a comprehensive national approach to improve treatment and prevention for the opioid and heroin crisis that is ravaging this nation. We should be dramatically increasing funds to address this epidemic, not slashing Medicaid by 35 percent over the next two decades. That means the Trump-McConnell bill must never see the light of day in the Senate.
-- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
Ravaged by opioids, a rural W.Va. community fears gutting of Medicaid
By Holly Bailey
