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The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis be...

Today the subcommittee holds a hearing entitled combatting the opoid crisis, battles in the states. Make no mistake, the term combatting and battles are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of a tremendous fight against death affecting every corner of our nation. There were more than 52,000 deaths in overdose. A 20 increase in the prior year. It was almost seven time it is rate of death from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. We learned we have lost roughly 60,0 0 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year than all the names on the vietnam veteran memorial wall. That is like...

In congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states, many are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way of theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so to today were going to k about, our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so writer we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, whats under discussion, and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty se...

In congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states, many are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way of theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so to today were going to k about, our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so writer we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, whats under discussion, and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty se...

Implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty seat, and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately, because of the crazy weather we had in d. C. , trish is not going to be able to get into town, so she will not be with us. But fear not, our three other panelists watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. First, to my left, we have diane rowland, executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family foundation. She was also the inaugural chair of mac pac...