'Several polls have shown now that even a majority of Republicans favor Medicaid expansion,' columnist Warondumb writes. 'But our elected officials won’t budge.'
, even though the Affordable Care Act mandates insurance companies cover fully preventative cancer screenings.
In Alabama, our public officials have stubbornly refused to expand Medicaid, and they’d rather let their own constituents go broke, get sick or die than change course. When asked, Gov. Kay Ivey, like Gov. Robert Bentley before her, has asked where the matching money would come from and pleaded poverty. We don’t have it, she’s said.
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