So, Ms. Brandt, are you familiar with the statistics showing that the percentage of people hospitalized with a substance use disorder who did not have health insurance dropped from 20 percent to just five percent in states that expanded Medicaid coverage in just two years?
Kennedy presents data on Medicaid expansion's impact on uninsured substance use disorder patients.
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