Political Quotes

“shortly we are going to have an opportunity to vote on the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018, which I strongly support. But I want to share with my colleagues a roundtable discussion I held in Baltimore just a few hours ago. In an area of Cherry Hill, I met with leading experts in regard to the opioid crisis. We had leadership from Baltimore city, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, representatives from the State, and a lot of different other organizations. It started with Dr. Jason Kletter, who is the president of BayMark, giving us a tour of the new facility that he opened up in Cherry Hill. This is a wonderful new facility for opioid addiction. It uses medicines in order to control a person's addiction, and it is a state- of-the-art facility. It was just opened last month--or 2 months ago--so it is a brandnew facility. I asked Dr. Kletter exactly how he was able to do this. The first thing he mentioned to me was the importance of the Affordable Care Act. Because of the expansion of Medicaid and the coverage for addiction and the coverage of essential health benefits within the Affordable Care Act, the clinic can get a lot more reimbursement for the people who use the facilities, giving them the wherewithal to be able to construct a new facility in the community, giving access to care for those who have addiction.…”