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Last year, when Public Partnerships LLC was chosen to administer New York’s home care services program, this editorial board made two observations. First, we wrote, the state had better be sure about its choice of vendor, because PPL’s operations in other states raised a number of red flags about its ability to manage the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. And second, we asserted that the state needed to ensure PPL’s operations are fully transparent and accountable — both to affirm that the company is fulfilling its mission to help New Yorkers, and because preventing fraud was the state’s goal in choosing PPL as program vendor in the first place.

Well, so far, PPL and the state have stumbled on all points — and the company hasn’t even fully taken over yet.

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