Yes, I believe the requirements under the essential benefit plan of the Affordable Care Act and our actions on the Medicaid program to buy into that essential benefit plan will singularly help both the mental health and the substance abuse community because it brings to true parity finally the financing mechanism for those services.
Thompson discusses how Medicaid expansion will improve mental health services access.
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I propose today that we end all budget negotiations until we really have a budget that says black lives matter in this state.
I am very concerned about the effect of the truncated schedule on both data collection and post data collection processing on the accuracy and quality of the 2020 Census.
These raise constitutional concerns, including the major questions doctrine, and is ripe for consideration by the Supreme Court.
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