Healthwatch with Dr. Leana Wen: Saving ACA, New Opioid Data, Women's Health at Risk

Today we begin the hour with another edition of the Midday Healthwatch. Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen is here to discuss some of the troubling new data on Maryland’s opioid problem, and some new efforts by Congressman Elijah Cummings and Senator Elizabeth Warren to help address it. She'll explain why the city has joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration’s continuing efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act, and why Baltimore is fighting a White House plan to restrict Title X funding for women’s health programs. Dr. Wen also describes the importance of last week's Breastfeeding Awareness Week...and she takes your questions and comments about public health!Today's Healthwatch was live-streamed on Facebook; the video is available on WYPR's Facebook page.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.