And, you know, that, you know, oh. Yeah, it gets deep. So. And he said in 15 years that he's been sober, he's never been to the emergency room once. And so HHS is able to look at those costs and those trajectories and all those collateral damage in the healthcare system, the addicts costing elsewhere a lot more money with law enforcement, with broken families, with lost jobs and inefficiencies, and those aren't internalized anywhere. And what we're trying to do is bring together all of the agencies, the va, Labor, HUD and hhs, all the agents of HHS together, to look at that addict … (1:04:39–1:04:59)
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Asserts that HHS can analyze the broader costs of addiction beyond healthcare.
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