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Lawmakers Debate Vaccine Exemptions And Cuts To Medicaid Could Affect Recovery Efforts, This West Virginia Morning

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On this West Virginia Morning, Del. Matt Rohrbach and Sen. Tom Takubo spoke with Eric Douglas about legislation aimed at providing exemptions to childhood immunizations currently making its way through the legislature in the latest episode of The Legislature Today.

And from the latest episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay learns how Medicaid supports recovery organizations and what that work looks like as Trump administration spending cuts may be targeting some low-income health care efforts.

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