Minority Lawmakers and Advocacy Groups Urge Patient Protections

A coalition of minority advocacy groups joined many Hispanic and black state legislators to push Gov. Cuomo to restore patient protections, namely prescriber prevails, in the Medicaid pharmacy benefit. An open letter from the group appears in an ad running in today’s issue of El Diario. They argue that a one-size fits all approach to health care only worsens health care disparities.

Here’s the ad from eldiariony.com.

-Jaime Venditti, 3/13/12