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Summer Lee: “Barriers to treatment disproportionately affect people of color, pregnant people, individuals with children, those in…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2023
Barriers to treatment disproportionately affect people of color, pregnant people, individuals with children, those in rural communities...
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Summer Lee highlights the inequities in access to treatment for marginalized groups.

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