Ted Cruz: “Medicaid paid $1.3 million in Medicaid payments [for autism]…”

“So one of the things in that last section was autism centers. And autism center centers are popping up like crazy. Here's an amazing total of autism Medicaid payments. So in 2017, Medicaid paid $1.3 million in Medicaid payments [for autism] in 2017. 2018, Medicaid paid 2.2 million Medicaid autism payments. 2019, what do you think it went to? I have no idea. At this point, it's got to be triple that.” (44:13–44:19)

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