The White House on Monday released a report saying Medicaid expansion will help those with mental health and substance abuse disorders, but advocacy groups said more needs to be done to remove other barriers that prevent people from getting care.
The Department of Health and Human Services in its report cited those affected by the country's opioid epidemic and people with untreated mental illness as a needy population that could be helped if states that are resisting expanding coverage to their needy populations under Obamacare committed to the move. Doing so, the agency said, could reach the nearly 2 million low-income people in non-expansion states who have these conditions, even resulting in 371,000 fewer people having symptoms of depression.
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