Byline: HARVY LIPMAN State editor
The owner of a drug store in the Empire State Plaza is calling it quits, saying his business has been done in by the cost-cutting efforts of state workers' health insurance plans.
Stephen Corson, the owner of the Empire Plaza Pharmacy, said he was closing the store for good as of Friday afternoon.
The pharmacy serves primarily state government employees, Corsons said, and business has plummeted since the health insurance plans of the the Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employee Federation have added rules requiring members to buy drugs through discount mail-order pharmacies.
"It has put …
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