Express your thoughts on the Trump administration's decision to cut funds to the CDC, NIH, HHS, and Medicaid, and suggest a solution to the opioid crisis.
Cutting funds to the CDC's, NIH, HHS and Medicaid will only make things worse, yet that's what Trump is determined to do. Nancy Reagan's "Just say no" "campaign was tragically useless, a "Let them eat cake" dismissal of a national problem. Policy backed with money and expertise is the only answer, and it would involve cracking down on the pill pushers. That could be part of a general integration of medical records, something that in itself would lower medical costs and improve delivery of services. As a nation we have the capability to do that, so why hasn't it been done? It has to be the stupidity of Congress, as well as the absolute incompetence of this administration.