Listen: As Puerto Rico Struggles To Rebuild Health System, Changes In Medicaid Loom

Kaiser Health News reporter Carmen Heredia Rodriguez joined Tanzina Vega, the host of WNYC’s “The Takeaway,” and Omaya Sosa Pascual, co-director of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, to discuss changes in Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program and health care issues there.

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<h1>Listen: As Puerto Rico Struggles To Rebuild Health System, Changes In Medicaid Loom</h1>
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			May 31, 2018		</time>
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<p>Kaiser Health News reporter Carmen Heredia Rodriguez joined Tanzina Vega, the host of WNYC’s “<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/public-health-failings-puerto-rico">The Takeaway</a>,” and Omaya Sosa Pascual, co-director of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, to discuss changes in Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program and health care issues there.</p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/as-puerto-rico-struggles-to-rebuild-health-system-changes-in-medicaid-loom/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/as-puerto-rico-struggles-to-rebuild-health-system-changes-in-medicaid-loom/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/as-puerto-rico-struggles-to-rebuild-health-system-changes-in-medicaid-loom/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Listen%3A%20As%20Puerto%20Rico%20Struggles%20To%20Rebuild%20Health%20System%2C%20Changes%20In%20Medicaid%20Loom&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2FODQzNzI0&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/as-puerto-rico-struggles-to-rebuild-health-system-changes-in-medicaid-loom/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/as-puerto-rico-struggles-to-rebuild-health-system-changes-in-medicaid-loom/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/as-puerto-rico-struggles-to-rebuild-health-system-changes-in-medicaid-loom/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"></p>
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