The Pride Center of Western NY and Evergreen Health informed Hochul and her administration “that their request to attend the Buffalo Pride Parade and Festival has been declined.”
Other LGBT groups across the state put out a statement of solidarity with the Buffalo contingent, too, raising the specter of Hochul being disinvited to other parades — including the largest in the nation, the NYC Gay Pride Parade.
“In the Governor’s budget, she advances a Cuomo-era policy that redirects revenue generated by the federal 340B drug pricing program away from community health centers and into the State’s coffers.” But in an effort to curb its related costs, the state plans to transition Medicaid members to a new pharmacy benefit plan known as NYRx — a move that LGBT groups say will mean higher costs for many of their members.
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