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On the recordJune 14, 2017
Are you saying that in, for example, a program in Vermont where 68 percent of medication-assisted treatment is funded through Medicaid, even though you're making enormous cuts in Medicaid--reducing national Medicaid spending by over $600 billion--we will still be able to get treatment for these people?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy questions the feasibility of Medicaid cuts affecting treatment availability.

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