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Michael Bennet: Do you think it makes any sense, though, for us to be cutting off Medicaid when you have a population in a jail where…

On the recordOctober 4, 2017
Do you think it makes any sense, though, for us to be cutting off Medicaid when you have a population in a jail where 100 out of 115 people are addicted to opioids?
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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Bennet questions the logic of cutting Medicaid for inmates with opioid addiction.

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