New York, don’t make Californias Rx drug mistake

Key Facts

• At the beginning of the year, California handed over the reins for its Medicaid prescription drug program to a single company: Magellan Health.
• In the weeks and months since, chaos has reigned, and low-income patients are paying the price.
• Patients are going days, sometimes weeks, without medications, and doctors are issuing dire warnings that it’s only a matter of time before someone dies as a result.
• And yet, if we refuse to learn from California’s mistakes, New York is doomed to repeat them, unleashing the same mess on its own pandemic-strained health-care system and putting vulnerable patients at risk in the process.

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