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Sanford Bishop: “Ending Medicaid coverage for non-emergency medical transportation would literally have been a matter of life and death…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
Ending Medicaid coverage for non-emergency medical transportation would literally have been a matter of life and death for many of these individuals.
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Sanford Bishop
Democratic · Georgia

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Bishop emphasizes the critical importance of Medicaid transportation for patients' healthcare access.

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