Its a program for lowincome and disadvantaged people. It covers children, the elderly, the handicapped and so on. I was born with a rare medical syndrome, and im going to need those services because my syndromes not going to go away and its not going to be healed, so i really want to learn more about this topic. I hope you do, too, because on april 1st, iowa joined 39 other states and the district of columbia by switching from a gov delivering Healthcare Services to more than half a million. I think its 580,000 iowans to private management care. Thats called an mco, and well learn more about that in a minute. Governor branstads plan and its implementatio n was said by many newspapers and different advocates to be a very aggressive plan and happening rapidly compared to some of the other branstad said in his first report on it that it was going smoothly and that he hoped things would continue to run smoothly while we saved taxpayers money, which is a great idea. However, a majority of i
Professionals with us that have a lot to share. Id like to introduce them to you at this time. Sitting g xt to me is lynda barrow, professor of Political Science at coe college. Welcome linda. Lynda thank you. Its good to be here. Artha nice to have e u here. Sitting next to linda is ray scheetz, an attorney in cedar rapids who has some expertise and some practice in thth area also. Ray good morning. Martha good morning. Thanks for being here ray. Rounding out our panel is ann naffier. Anns come to us from des moines this morning. Shes with the program called juice for our neighbors. Ann good morning. Martha good morning. Ann, lets start with you. What is justice for our neighbors . Ann justice for our neighbors is a statewide Nonprofit Organization that provides free Legal Assistance and representation to low income immigrants throughout iowa. Im herere because i am the attorney who works with the cedar rapids site. We come to cedar rapids once a month and we see any low income immigr
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