Opinion by Jennifer Rubin | Something even the GOP might support: Expanding mental health services
mental health spending in the state is gaining momentum in the GOP-dominated state legislature. Meanwhile, a number of states have entered into anIt’s true that Republicans and Democrats cannot agree on much at the federal level. But expanding access to mental health care might be the sort of issue even churlish Republicans wouldn’t block.
To be certain, it will not be easy to convince House Republicans to spend money on anything. But they are interested in “clawing back” unused pandemic money, estimated to be about . If some of that could be redirected toward mental health spending, especially in schools, a compromise might be in the offing.from 2022, including expanded care for veterans exposed to burn pits in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; more funding to fight cancer; and more resources to battle opioid addiction in rural communities.
Who knows? Perhaps even the House Republicans are capable of addressing a real problem with federal resources.
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