New York: Capitol reporter Mike Gormley reported that new Cuomo administration cost-cutting guidelines would require women on Medicaid to use cheaper, generic birth control pills until those pills “failed”—meaning the women could end up pregnant before they would be able to use their preferred, and sometimes doctor-recommended, methods such as the NuvaRing or patch. The reporting had an immediate impact: Within an hour, the state was telling insurers to do what’s best for the patient,.