Overview

• Filming is underway with production scripts incorporating the on-the-ground effects of Trump administration Medicaid cuts and immigration enforcement.
• Writers have consulted hundreds of medical professionals to accurately portray the impact of a 12 percent reduction in Medicaid funding on ER operations.
• Executive producer John Wells notes bipartisan consensus that the Medicaid changes will create immediate strain on emergency rooms.
• Season 2 will dramatize ICE’s mass immigration raids to highlight the added pressures those policies impose on hospital staff.
• The series maintains its one-day, near real-time format and adopts a neutral stance to let viewers draw their own conclusions.