Like education, health care in our state has major challenges, from stubbornly high infant mortality to the closing of rural ...

Changes to Medicaid are expected under a second Trump administration and a potential target for spending cuts is the Medicaid ...

Medicaid is the nation’s publicly financed health and long-term care program for low-income people. It was originally ...

Imagine you are a business owner,r and 10 to 40 percent of the customers who walk in your doors, can’t pay you. You also ...

the state-federal Medicaid program has gradually expanded to cover those with somewhat higher incomes; with its Essential Plan, New York aims to enroll anyone up to 250% of the poverty line.

State Sen. Sally Harrell said the work requirement to receive Medicaid hinders unpaid caregivers whose work does not qualify as employment.

When voters initiated and overwhelmingly approved expanded Medicaid coverage for 88,000 of our family, friends and neighbors ...

Those eligible under expansion are living below the poverty line but making too much to have previously qualified for Medicaid -- a phenomenon known as the Medicaid gap. "An incredible impact for ...

The ALLHealth plan — presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama — would provide private health insurance to up to 330,000 eligible Alabamians.

Medicaid expansion allows people making up ... qualify for benefits can get coverage only if they make 18% of the poverty line, or $4,648 for a family of three. Alabama is one of 10 states that ...

I wish Alabamians could speak plainly to our legislators. I mean, you can do that, but blunt language won’t get your problems ...