text: I spent four hours in a meeting yesterday with our CEO trying to figure out ways our Community Mental Health Centers could still stay afloat as cuts in medicaid payments are set to begin this July for some services. We can probably survive this first assault, but we will not be able to withstand the cuts in medicaid envisioned by either of the GOP bills.  The mentally ill and addicted are defined targets when this bill allows states to opt out of those services.  Should either bill become law, the mentally ill will suffer bigly.  Somehow I don't find this surprising coming from a political party that can't recognize mental illness in their own leadership....or moral illness for that matter.