Titan Pharmaceuticals Inc (TTNP)

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healthcare stocks down due to healthcare repeal uncertainty .. TTNP > than most BC of its other challenges .. 2 billion promised for opioid Tx under healthcare proposal will do little to address recovery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-the-senate-gop-health-bill-will-mean-for-opioid-treatment_us_594aeb2ce4b0a3a837bcd1aa

"A one time fund of $2 billion for addiction and mental health treatment “is pocket change” Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University told HuffPost....“Medicaid spends more than twice that every single year so this is a massive cut to services and will likely lead to more opioid overdose deaths,” Humphreys said...“One of the things we’ve seen over and over again is that when you give people supplemental services around addiction treatment — you take care of their pain, you take care of their depression, you take care of their unmanaged hepatitis C, they’re more likely to recover,” Humphreys told Stat News...“It’s sort of like saying we’re going to treat somebody’s pancreas but not touch the rest of them. It’s really hard to do that with people,” he added. “Things tend to be interconnected.”

... of note, MNKD (often compared to TTNP) has + 150% since May .. even today it's up nearly 5%.. so not all healthcare is taking a hit... pretty much TTNP continues to be sold