Medicaid Steep Cuts: The Costs in Utah

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11

PROGRAM #10802  12:00 PM PT 

Medicaid Steep Cuts: The Costs in Utah. 

Almost eleven million people stand to lose their health insurance under the big budget plan discussed in Congress, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Utah’s rural areas may be among the hardest hit. How would the potential Medicaid cuts impact Latinos in Utah? What are local leaders doing to protect access to health care and how closely are they following the debate in Washington?

Guests: Dr. Teresa Molina, Community Advocate, Latino Behavioral Health Services, Salt Lake City, UT; Jules Martinez, Clinical Director, Jacky’s Recovery Support Services, South Salt Lake, UT; Giovanna Palacios Spiess, Legal Director, Alliance Community Services, Murray, UT; Ciriac Alvarez Valle, Senior Policy Analyst, Voice for Utah Children, Salt Lake City, UT.

Protests against ICE raids in L.A. enter their sixth day. This is a report with updated details on the situation in Los Angeles, California, where ICE agents have been detaining suspected undocumented immigrants without coordination with local authorities and protests continue to take place around the curfew that was declared temporarily on a limited downtown area by the city’s mayor’s office.

Guest: Alejandro Maciel, Reporter, Los Angeles, CA.

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