Commercials decrying the effects of the 10 percent state cuts to Medi-Cal hit the airwaves recently.

I saw one for the first time last night.

And among the health providers featured in the TV spots is Bakersfield nurse practitioner Carmen Morales-Board, who works at Kern Medical Center.

Here's how one of the commercials goes:

Morales-Board: In Sacramento, a 10 percent budget cut for doctors and hospitals is just a number on a spreadsheet.

Licensed vocational nurse Kit de Young, Visalia: But around Fresno, more across-the-board cuts would be just devastating...

Dr. Virgil Airola, Fresno: Threatening the only Level One trauma center between L.A. and Sacramento...

de Young: Putting people across the Central Valley at risk.

Morales-Board: But if our legislators do their jobs...

Airola: Then doctors and nurses can keep doing ours. Stop the health care cuts.

Morales-Board: Or we’ll all pay the price.

The commercials were produced by the California Health Care Partnership, which the spots define as "a coalition of doctors, nurses, hospitals, health care providers, seniors and consumers."

The California Health Care Partnership put on the press conference at Mercy Hospital Monday where local health care providers spoke about the cuts. (Read "Privately insured to make up difference in Medi-Cal cuts, hospitals warn," which was published Tuesday.)

I couldn't find a Web site for the group. According to a press release on the Service Employees International Union's site, the coalition includes the AARP, California Medical Association, SEIU, Catholic Healthcare West, Kaiser Permanente and Health Access.

For more information about the cuts, read the posts:
Medi-Cal cuts impact people with private insurance too
Tax hikes vs. funds for health care, education
'Access to vital health care is at stake for all Californians'
Mercy president: Budget cuts put lives at risk
Calif. sued over Medi-Cal rate cuts
Is health reform dead?