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From today's Washington Post,

Bruce Levine — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:40:57 +0000

From today's Washington Post, Americans are largest users of opioids in the world.

And I noted with interest

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:36:20 +0000

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And I noted with interest that the House bill takes care that people like Clyde don't turn against them in the short term. If you are on Medicaid now, you would get to stay on Medicaid until you start making a certain amount of money, until Medicare kicks in if need be, as long as you continually re-up.. The rules changes will only affect new people who would have, under Obamacare, newly qualify for Medicaid. And those who had to leave it because of income changes could not re-up if t heir income fell again. It's a long term phase out.

Edit to add: one thing I have seen few point out that this would get rid of the game where one gets Medicaid coverage for the nursing home or home care for grandma that Medicare won't pay for.

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HSG — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:13:36 +0000

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There is no evidence of a

rmrd0000 — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:03:05 +0000

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There is no evidence of a country that successfully provides healthcare based on a free market model.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/09/republican-rep-schooled-pulling-f...

People do not rush to the United States from Canada etc, to get healthcare because US healthcare is too expensive.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fact-checking-trump-are-canad...

Facts regarding healthcare may eventually sneak through.

Sadly, while drug addiction

rmrd0000 — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:35:15 +0000

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Sadly, while drug addiction is increased throughout the country, it has a devastating effect on small town America. Small town America voted for Trump. Trumpcare will likely decrease federal funding for drug addiction treatment.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/politics/donald-trump-medicaid-cuts-opioids/

At this stage, I don't think Republicans care.

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Will the current situation regarding healthcare change attitudes about voting for the party that believes in government aiding the public (will there be more Democratic votes in 2018?)

This piece in Sunday's WP is

Bruce Levine — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:59:35 +0000

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This piece in Sunday's WP is heart-wrenching, all of these sick, hopeless folks in WVputting their hope in coal jobs that won't come back. This is one of those must-reads:

Heartburn is just the latest problem for Clyde, a patient Keisha sees every three months. Like so many in this corner of Appalachia, he used to have a highly paid job at a coal mine. Company insurance covered all of his medical needs. Then he lost the job and ended up here, holding a cane and suffering not only from heartburn but diabetes, arthritis, diverticulitis, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Because of the ACA, Clyde’s visit is covered by Medicaid. Before the law, most West Virginians without children or disabilities could not qualify for Medicaid, no matter how poor they were. The ACA — better known here as Obamacare — expanded the program to cover more people, such as Clyde, who can depend on Keisha to fix his heartburn without having to worry about the cost.

As for the other problems in his life, he has put his hopes in Trump, who came to West Virginia saying he would bring back coal and put miners back to work. When Trump mentioned repealing Obamacare, Clyde wasn’t sure what that might mean for his Medicaid. But if he had a job that provided health insurance, he reasoned, he wouldn’t need Medicaid anyway, so he voted for Trump, along with 74 percent of McDowell County.

The Washington Post is

Bruce Levine — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:55:14 +0000

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The Washington Post is (finally?) using some ink on this catastrophe. Some West Virginians have filed suit against drug wholesalers and distributors:

“The purpose of these lawsuits is to make the economic cost of willfully violating the law so significant that we force the wholesalers to abide by the law,” said Paul Farrell Jr., who filed the lawsuits in West Virginia and plans to file lawsuits on behalf of five other counties in the state next week.

The suits are among the first of their kind in the country. They accuse the companies of creating a hazard to public health and safety by shipping inordinate quantities of opioids into the state in violation of a West Virginia law. The law was originally designed to permit the demolition of run-down buildings that posed a public nuisance and threatened the safety of a community.

The lawsuits name McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen — which distribute 85 percent of the nation’s drugs. Also named are Walgreens, CVS and others.

I watched Chris Hayes last

Danny Cardwell — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:50:16 +0000

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I watched Chris Hayes last night and it was heartbreaking to hear what's happening in McDowell. There's no way we can accept this as the new normal.

Thanks! I appreciate you

Danny Cardwell — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:06:27 +0000

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Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to read and engage this post.

Thanks for commenting. You

Danny Cardwell — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:05:20 +0000

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Thanks for commenting. You had a very good Halcast today. I wathed it in two parts. Keep pushing!