Morning Must Read: Keith Humphreys: Dear Bill Keller, Please Start Taking Drug Addiction Treatment Seriously
Keith Humphreys: Dear Bill Keller, Please Start Taking Drug Addiction Treatment Seriously: “In his closing contribution to the New York Times, Bill Keller laments President Obama’s unwillingness to invest in drug addiction treatment….
It is also embarrassingly, verifiably, wrong. I am sure Mr. Keller and all the other journalistic critics of Obama’s drug treatment record have heard of The Affordable Care Act… [that] expands access to care for over 60 million Americans by mandating that drug treatment coverage be included in every plan and be at parity with that for other disorders… [the] regulations for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act provide benefit parity to more than 100 million Americans with employer-provided health insurance… independent analysts at CMS consider the current public policy environment the most dramatic improvement in the quantity and quality of addiction treatment in U.S. history… Rather than use his platform to make assertions that are demonstrably inaccurate, I hope he will in the future engage in… due diligence…