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crazytown

(7,277 posts)
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:07 AM May 2019

Amy Klobuchar releases $100 billion plan for substance abuse and mental health

PBS, May 3, 2019
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/klobuchar-releases-100-billion-substance-abuse-mental-health-plan

Klobuchar releases $100 billion substance abuse, mental health plan

CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has released a plan to spend $100 billion over a decade to improve mental health care and fight substance abuse, an issue the Minnesota senator has faced firsthand as the daughter of an alcoholic who struggled with addiction for years before getting sober.

The wide-ranging plan, released Friday, includes funding for early intervention of mental health disorders and drug use, a national suicide prevention campaign, better access to opioid addiction and other types of treatment and recruitment of health care workers to underserved rural areas and cities with the highest need.

Klobuchar also says that as president she would prioritize mental health and substance abuse treatment over incarceration for nonviolent offenders, noting she supported drug courts as an alternative to jail when she was the lead prosecutor of Minnesota’s largest county.

Klobuchar speaks often about her father’s alcoholism and the impact it had on her life, and she says it’s one of the issues she hears most about from people as she campaigns for the 2020 Democratic nomination in a crowded field of candidates . She says her father got “real treatment” after his third arrest for driving while intoxicated. He has remained sober with support from friends, family and his faith, what he calls being “pursued by grace,” she say

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Amy Klobuchar releases $100 billion plan for substance abuse and mental health (Original Post) crazytown May 2019 OP
Sounds good to me. I would happily pay for real mental healthcare DesertRat May 2019 #1
I applaud her recognition of the severity of the problem and the willingness to flamin lib May 2019 #2
$100 billion plan left-of-center2012 May 2019 #3
Price does not deter over-use of opioids. crazytown May 2019 #4
Here's a clip from her interview on CBS this morning DesertRat May 2019 #5
 

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
1. Sounds good to me. I would happily pay for real mental healthcare
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:16 AM
May 2019

than to stroke the ego of the orange narcissist who uses racism and fear to waste money on an unnecessary wall!

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flamin lib

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2. I applaud her recognition of the severity of the problem and the willingness to
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:22 AM
May 2019

step up with a plan BUT if more drug company executives were treated like those at Insys Theraputics the problem wouldn't exist.

This isn't a slam at Klobuchar and won't affect any support I will lend to the nominee, only a comment on the inherent privilege of wealth. Perhaps we learned a lesson from the banking industry failure that almost destroyed the world economy yet no one went to jail.

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left-of-center2012

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3. $100 billion plan
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:37 AM
May 2019

“The $100 billion would come largely from opioid manufacturers ...
Klobuchar would impose a new fee of 2 cents per milligram of the active ingredient in a prescription pain pill.”

You do know that the opioid manufacturers will pass that cost along?

The cost of medicine will go up.
So, patients and our insurance will pay for it.

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crazytown

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4. Price does not deter over-use of opioids.
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:49 AM
May 2019

A super tax on big Pharma would be more like it.

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DesertRat

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5. Here's a clip from her interview on CBS this morning
Fri May 3, 2019, 11:07 AM
May 2019
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