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By State Senator Jim McClendon Medicaid and the entire health delivery system for the State of Alabama is a House of cards, and one of the integral cards is Medicaid itself.  If Medicaid falters, the entire system falters. Without Medicaid, hospitals will close, and the entire system will be jeopardized. Thousands,  no, hundreds of thousands … Continued

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Anybody who can read an Excel spreadsheet understood four years ago, that the State would have a $150 to $250 million shortfall in the General Fund in fiscal year 2017 when the $150 million a year trust fund raid money was finally all gone. This was all easily … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, August 5, the Republican controlled Alabama House of Representatives passed a controversial state General Fund (SGF) budget that if actually passed and implemented will have enormous impacts on both low income Alabama households and the Alabama healthcare industry. The four biggest payers of medical bills in the state … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, May 22, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R) from Alabama spoke on the growing scandal at the Department of Veteran Affairs while in a committee meeting considering the Fiscal Year 2015 Veterans Affairs/Military Construction funding bill.  Sen. Shelby said that it was unconscionable that Veterans were denied timely … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama Tea Party Movement is actively lobbying Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) to join with the other conservative Republican Governors and tell the administration of President Barack H Obama that Alabama will not participate in implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (better known as Obamacare). On Friday … Continued