Arizona Cuts Transplant Medicaid Funding

Russell Pearce, President-elect of the Arizona State Senate, tells us why the state legislature decided to cut Medicaid funding for several types of transplants and why he thinks that such cuts are necessary to close the state's budget gap. Michael Abecassis, director of Northwestern University's comprehensive transplant center and president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, takes the opposing view, arguing that the cuts are flawed and have no basis in medicine.