Activists urge Warren to support health care bill
Advocates for addiction treatment in Massachusetts on Wednesday launched a campaign to persuade Senator Elizabeth Warren to reverse her opposition to a bill known as the 21st Century Cures Act, saying the state needs money for addiction treatment that the legislation could provide.
Warren, who worked on the bill for two years and wrote parts of it, turned against it Monday, saying it had been rewritten to benefit pharmaceutical companies at the expense of consumers. The bill, which passed the House on Wednesday evening, is intended to promote cancer research and other biomedical research, and includes $1 billion to combat the opioid crisis.
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