We have introduced a bipartisan bill to provide presumptive Medicaid eligibility, which would eliminate much of the lag time ...

Many conservatives argue that Medicaid expansion has created a heavy financial burden for states and that reliance on so much ...

Twenty-one million people in the United States who are low income get their health insurance because of expanded eligibility ...

Lawmakers are hopeful expanding healthcare access will bring down Alabama’s climbing infant and maternal mortality rates.

Alabama could face significant funding losses if Congress moves forward with budget resolutions that propose deep cuts to ...

Alabama Medicaid covers mental health counseling by therapists like Freels for children ... and struggled to find a therapist who accepted her insurance. In Alabama, it's difficult to qualify for ...

Republican lawmakers in several states have Medicaid expansion in their crosshairs, energized by President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and a GOP-controlled Congress set on reducing ...

An analysis from health policy charity Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) evaluated nearly 400million claims made to insurance ...

He said last year that legislators had to have a “conversation” about “public-private partnerships” on health insurance. Alabama is one of 10 states that has not expanded Medicaid ...

By the late afternoon, states including Alabama, Maryland ... million people in the U.S. were enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in October 2024.