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Podcast 204: Medical marijuana’s effect on Medicare prescriptions
Category: Health
Duration: 00:15:35
Publish Date: 2016-07-10 18:09:52
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[Note: a transcript of this interview will be added in a few days’ time.]

Our guest has strong indirect evidence that medical marijuana has been replacing “standard” drugs in states where it is legal. In doing so, the substitution is saving the Medicare system modest amounts of money. Their evidence, published in Health Affairs, comes from an examination of national Medicare Part D records over a 4-year span.

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