If Congress can spend over $50 billion to address natural disasters, it can absolutely spend just half that to address an escalating national disaster killing more than 100,000 Americans just this year!
Calls for significant funding to combat the opioid crisis, comparing it to past HIV/AIDS funding.
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Well, it is obviously the key driver in terms of ability to provide the services necessary, because while there is a suspension now and people are using it, that is not going to continue unless the biggest payer of all, CMS, steps up and…
This is why it is time to pass the Telemental Health Expansion Act which I introduced, as I mentioned, with Congresswoman Doris Matsui.
And until there is that same urgency towards enforcing, and until there is that same money backing up our words that these are really equal illnesses, we are really still in denial as a Nation.
We need help from Congress to remove prejudice and discrimination and treat it just like all other forms of prejudice and discrimination.