So what Dr. Snyder in his professional medical judgment is telling us is that there are tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who are simply routinely having their addiction satisfied by ongoing prescriptions of opioids, and we are not even monitoring--still, nevertheless, they do not qualify even to have their situation monitored.
Toomey highlights the lack of monitoring for Medicare beneficiaries with high opioid prescriptions.
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But that does not mean that Congress should be throwing even more billions of Federal taxpayer dollars at them to build out more services for riders they do not have.
The fact is, across America, every month Americans are falling further and further behind because of President Biden's out-of-control inflation.
Congress can and should offer a sensible approach for the domestic regulation of these activities.
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