Central Valley nurses rally against Medicaid cuts

Central Valley nurses rally against Medicaid cuts

Local nurses with the California Nurses Association held a town hall meeting Thursday night at the Martin Luther King Community Center to protest recent federal budget cuts they say could strip health insurance from millions of Californians.The event was organized in response to the federal budget bill signed by President Trump in July, which critics say cuts over $900 billion from Medicaid and could leave more than 3 million Californians withou…

Nurses and labor, communities allies vow to fight back against Medicaid cuts

At a town hall on Thursday, registered nurses with California Nurses Association/National Nurses United – along with local elected officials and leaders and members of community organizations from Bakersfield and the Central Valley – vowed to take on the elected officials and corporations that are destroying public programs like Medicaid in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires.