10/31/2023
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"Can I just make sure that you have somebody on your staff coordinating with Rhode Island to make sure that you are supporting their work and everybody is pulling smoothly together on parity disclosure..."
"That is 2 percent of the $8.6 billion that the pharmaceutical industry makes selling just the prescribed opioid products, setting aside the illicit stuff that comes over the border."
"We, in the negotiations around CARA and the Cures Act, got a bipartisan commitment for an extra billion dollars to be spent on opioid treatment."
"I would consider a beachhead, not a victory."