We have seen in our Medicaid program in Ohio, through this lock-in program, a 41-percent reduction in dosages for certain narcotics.
I have been at hospitals in Cincinnati and Cleveland and in Lima...
Of course, it is. In fact, this very legislation will help people get into treatment, because, once they are identified as a frequent abuser...
By the way, the CARA legislation also authorizes the Pregnant and Postpartum Women's Program...
But there is also a subset of Medicare beneficiaries who are innocently getting duplicative opioid prescriptions.
I think that is important.
But this legislation that Senator Toomey has proposed is really important, because it says with regard to Medicare, let us be sure that we a...
We do have some differences on the big picture: $3.3 trillion in new taxes.
Prescription drug and heroin addiction is at epidemic levels in my State and around the country, and we are losing, as you indicate, lives e...
I hope you will support it. I hope you will get behind it.
I look forward to working with you on that as well, because it does require a statutory change.