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Healthcare Dialogues

Some take a hard stance and say the U.S. should not provide health care for undocumented immigrants. Others say ignoring the problem and forcing undocumented immigrants to rely on emergency care is ultimately poor care and more expensive. As part of our Health Dialog preview we’ll tackle the issue of undocumented immigrants, their children and their health care.

This episode of Health Dialogues, “Immigration Reform & Public Health,” runs on KPCC this Sunday night at 10pm

Guests:

Jim Mangia, President & CEO of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, a free clinic in South LA that receives both government and private funding; they treat 50,000 patients annually, 30,000 of them are children, many are undocumented

Jennifer Ngandu, Deputy Director of Health Policy at the National Council of La Raza

Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies