HEALTH: Medicaid Expansion

 

     The battle continues over expanding Medicaid in Alabama to provide medical insurance for many more people than are covered now.

     Here's how one Montgomery resident who recently went through a major medical incident explains the need:

 

Governor Ivey claims to be a conservative. A fundamental principle of conservatism is to save money, and one does not have to be an expert to grasp that Medicaid would be more cost-effective than the emergency room. She claims to be a Christian. She would do well to reflect on Jesus’s words to do”unto the least of these.”

To paraphrase the lawyer Joseph Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, ma’am, at long last?”

Randall Williams is a resident of Montgomery.

 

Randall, is also, of course, the Co-founder of NewSouth Publishing, and a longtime advocate of improving Alabama's services to the many poor residents of the state. He is recovering from a terrible accident....and I for one am delighted to see him writing again. 

See his complete column HERE.