Page 28 - Addicted News Today

>> it is ravaging every single segment of our society. this is a chemical, almost warfare on us that people dont know how to control. >> the high school cheerleader, addicted at 15. the 20-year-old baseball player dead. these fathers, now inmates, because of their addiction. and even the sheriffs former wife, addicted. this is the real picture of americas opioid crisis. where drugs dont discriminate. its affecting neighborhoods across the heartland and from coast to coast. >> how does a 15-year-...

With senator portman, my office is in touch with his office all the time. he knows about my deep concerns of medicaid expansion, about the funding of medicaid, about the ri rickety-rockety nature of medicaid. if people have health care and theyre sick, theyre not likely to work. if theyre hungry, theyre not likely to work. so we need to make sure people can get primary health coverage so the drug addicted can get what they need and get on their feet. contrary to what people might think, the medi...

Yes, if youre saying, well, were going to shift all the cost to the governors or much of the cost to the governors and keep everybody on unless they sneeze, in which case well throw them right off, yes, there claims could be narrowly be said to be true, but thats not where the problem is and where the debate will focus. >> a number of republican governors are the ones talking about their concerns for this. john kasich is one of them. hes been out there as one of the republicans who has had these...

John kasich of ohio, says the senate bill doesnt do enough for those suffering from drug addiction. listen to this. >> the total number of dollars that are going to be dedicated to medicaid are not enough. i mean, theres not enough resources there, and ive been very concerned here in my state about treating the mentally ill, the drug addicted, the chronically ill, particularly under medicaid expansion. look at entire medicaid pie, there is a huge challenge to it, because the resources are just n...

Ran. and i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so ill show i am worth it. so thats -- yay. im stuck on stuff today, so, yeah. >> in a few days, butcher will take her ...

Because anything worth it is worth working for. and ive been sober before. ive had three years. and my daddy passed away, and i ran. and i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth ...

Strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so ill show i am worth it. so thats -- yay. im stuck on stuff today, so, yeah. >> in a few days, butcher will take her acceptance letter to court and a...

In a very bad so this is a time for america to stand up. i understand donald trump has said, maybe we should have done this more with democrats. right now off the get go, its all partisan. the democrats did it with obamacare. and its not sustainable. the republicans tried to do it with just republicans. if doesnt work like that in our country. were not a parliamentary system. whenever you continue to operate like that, what you pass will never be sustainable and it will -- the people of this cou...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...