Prescription medications cost too much.
Seniors need help now as HMO prescription benefits are being decreased. Other states have passed legislation to help seniors. This hearing explores what needs to be done from the perspective of patients, providers, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies and public agencies. For your information and use, the staff of the Senate Committee on Public Safety has prepared this summary of bills pertaining to Public Safety s jurisdiction passes by the Legislature and signed into law or vetoed by the Governor in 2000. Most of those bills signed into law will go into effect January 1, 2001.