Two Deaths, Two Daughters And A Healthcare System That Failed

WNYC News | Feb 27, 2020

Two senior citizens with dementia were found dead after they wandered away from their homes in New York City last week. One was found on the shore of Newtown Creek in Queens, and the other in a grassy area near the Cross Bronx Expressway. 

Their deaths have shined a light on a fast-growing, for-profit health-insurance company in charge of approving and arranging the long-term care they needed to live in their homes and be safe. 

It has also exposed the plight of two daughters fighting to protect their aging mothers while navigating the state’s byzantine and costly Medicaid program.  

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