This week Shannon Cooper, a lobbyist with America's Health Insurance Plans, referred to Crowell's idea of "picking winners and losers" among the autistic community as justification for why he should oppose the bill. Cooper and Smith said the bill would only cover 12 percent of the autistic population, while another lobbyist, Brent Butler, put the figure at 20 percent.
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