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Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report highlighting the urgent need for Medicaid expansion in the Deep South as a pressing matter of racial and disability justice. At a time ...
A new report detailed how Republican budget proposals could cost non-expansion states billions, risking coverage for millions and jeopardizing health sector jobs.
Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent ...
The federal budget bill championed by President Trump is before the U.S. Senate, and it could include changes to Medicaid ...
Alabama could lose over $800 million in federal Medicaid funding if U.S. House Republicans go through with a plan to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the health insurance program ...
You start cutting that out, we’ve got big problems,” Tuberville said. Eliminating those taxes “might lose some folks.” ...
If Alabama adopted Medicaid expansion under the federal Affordable Care Act, at least 174,000 residents would be covered, according to KFF, the health policy research group.
Work continues in the U.S. Senate on what Donald Trump calls his big beautiful budget bill. Critics are concerned about ...
The Alabama Medicaid Agency, facing about $85 million less in funding than it says it needs to function, started laying out a case for more money to legislators Wednesday.
Alabama dentists are seeking emergency funding in the upcoming Medicaid budget, warning that they are “in a crisis situation.
MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — A bill that would expedite Medicaid coverage and prenatal health care for low-income pregnant women in Alabama has advanced as lawmakers across the South try to address ...