The non-partisan that 14 million Americans who have health insurance under Obamacare could lose that coverage in the first year of the Republican replacement. That plan could also have a big impact on people seeking help for opioid addiction.
Dr. is the former assistant secretary of Planning and Evaluation for the Department of Health and Human Services.
He says that states like Ohio by the phase out of Medicaid expansion under the Republican plan.
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by New York University and Harvard co-authored by Frank, 222,000 people in the U.S. with an opioid disorder would lose some or all of their insurance under the Republican plan.
