Addiction experts say GOP proposal to replace Medicaid spending won’t help
Republican senators have suggested a massive influx of spending on treatment services if Medicaid funding is slashed. Addiction experts are skeptical.
Addiction experts have warned that Republican proposals to dramatically cut Medicaid funding could worsen the nation’s growing opioid crisis. So a pair of GOP senators is pushing for a solution: a massive influx of money for treatment to help stave off those effects.
But that makeshift effort may also fall flat, advocates in the recovery community say.
Republican Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, whose states have been devastated by the nation’s opioid epidemic, have suggested they hope to
