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California's Lifeline to Sickle Cell Patients Is Dangling. Cutting It Would Be a Catastrophic Failure.

A pioneering California health program for sickle cell patients is saving lives and taxpayer money, but its state funding has ended, putting its future and the well-being of over 1,200 vulnerable residents in perilous uncertainty. It is a profound moral abdication to build a lifeline of hope for the historically marginalized, only to cruelly sever it while celebrating the very lives it sustains.