Tag Archives: Health
Finding the Uninsured Kids.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25. PROGRAM # 7726 12:00 PM PT Finding the Uninsured Kids. Latino advocates are trying to find the remaining uninsured children in California, state that despite making historic gains in cutting down the number of uninsured children still has more than 300,000 of Latino kids without health coverage. Beginning in May, undocumented kids […]
Zika Virus Outbreak. Also, Massive Lead Contamination.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8. PROGRAM # 7713 12:00 PM PT Zika Virus Outbreak. The Zika virus is now a global health emergency. Puerto Rico and parts of Florida have declared a state of emergency due to the rapid spread of the outbreak of this virus, which is associated with brain damage in newborns. Now the first […]
Open Enrollment: the Home Stretch.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. PROGRAM # 7696 12:00 PM PT Open Enrollment: the Home Stretch. ACA Marketplaces’ open enrollment period is entering the home stretch and, after two periods, many hail the progress in access to care. Still, Latinos continue being the most uninsured population and enrollees continue facing high health care costs. Health policy analysts […]
Francisco X. Alarcón. Also, Come Bien! Eat Right! Also, New Healthy Eating Guidelines.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7. PROGRAM # 7691 12:00 PM PT Francisco X. Alarcon. Renowned Mexican-American poet Francisco X.Alarcon is battling cancer and his friends pay a tribute to him in San Francisco, CA. Alarcón is known for a number of collections of poetry, including Tattoos, and Snake Poems: An Aztec invocation, as well as bilingual poetry […]
The Year in Review.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. PROGRAM # 7686 12:00 PM PT The Year in Review. Thousands of farm workers staged an unprecedented walk out in San Quintin. Parents of the Ayotzinapa disappeared bring their plight to the US. Juan Felipe Herrera makes history as the first Latino poet laureate in the US. Key players remember the Grape […]
Latinas: Reproductive Justice. Passing of a “Truth Teller.”
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14. PROGRAM # 7673 12:00 PM PT Latinas: Reproductive Justice. While Latinas are the largest group of women in reproductive age in Texas, they face insurmountable barriers to health care. They are less likely to have health insurance or access to reproductive health services, and end up with serious infections and diseases like […]
Third ACA Enrollment Starts.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12. PROGRAM # 7651 12:00 PM PT Third ACA Enrollment Starts. The open enrollment period to get health coverage in 2016 in the ACA Marketplace began November 1 and it will run for three months. Advocates and officials chat with listeners, responding to questions like: how to buy or renew health insurance marketplace […]
Aid in Dying Law. Also, Dia de los Muertos
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2. PROGRAM # 7643 12:00 PM PT Aid in Dying Law. California Gov. Brown signed into law last month a landmark bill that would legalize physician-assisted death. California becomes the fifth state to allow medical aid in dying. Opponents are planning to circulate petitions for a referendum on the 2016 ballot. The New […]
Health for All Minors.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22. PROGRAM # 7636 12:00 PM PT Health for All Minors. California Gov. Brown signed a new law to extend health care coverage to undocumented children. beginning in May 2016, Medi-Cal, the public health state program for the poor, will extend coverage to about 170,000 undocumented children under age 19. How is California’s […]
New Anti Wage-Theft Law.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15. PROGRAM # 7631 12:00 PM PT New Anti Wage-Theft Law. California Gov. Brown signed into law a historic wage theft bill that targets employers who steal wages from their workers. The new law, known as Fair Day’s Pay Act, gives state authorities more tools to crackdown on employers cited for wage theft […]
