I just read an interesting series of tweets about the politics of TrumpCare, and what effect its passage might have politically.
Had a long conversation with friend who is former Democratic speaker of WV House of Delegates about voter remorse and #Trumpcare 1/
— Data&Politics ? (@dataandpolitics) March 13, 2017
Addendum: he thinks Dems' most effective message is #Trumpcare's reduction of opioid addiction care. Almost every family affected in WV
— Data&Politics ? (@dataandpolitics) March 13, 2017
I feel like everywhere I turn the past few days, I see articles about deaths from opioid overdose. I was stunned to see that the number of people who died from synthetic opioid overdoses in 2015 was up 72% over 2014, and that the total number of opioid overdose deaths each year is now about the same as the number of people who died in car accidents. According to Vox, about 2.8 million people could lose access to drug treatment if ACA is repealed.
Trump did very well among voters in areas most affected by the opioid epidemic. In October, the Trump campaign claimed it had a plan to end the opioid epidemic. Hard to imagine that plan involved getting rid of everyone’s access to drug treatment programs.
But it did not affect the steady sell of junkPost + Comments (105)