GRAVEYARDS REJOICE –
July 25, 2025 – The day before the bill passed the House, a group of researchers sent a memo to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, estimating that the package would cause about 156,000 people to lose access to treatment for opioid use disorder. The next day, the bill cleared the House, and the day after, Trump signed it into law.
Linas called the findings “upsetting,” adding that the 1,000 additional deaths researchers projected was likely an underestimate because he and his colleagues only accounted for people not being able to access their medications for opioid use disorder—not for any other health complications that could worsen after losing access to health insurance, such as infections, heart attack, or cancer.
