Tag: health care
Daniel Sutter: Is health care a right?
Daniel Sutter addresses the question: is health care a right?
Greg Reed: Alabama’s innovative reform to medicaid is paying dividends
One of the toughest, yet least-talked about, challenges facing the U.S. today is how to effectively deliver affordable health care to America’s...
Democrats take a look at a practical health care approach
Democratic voters appear to be reassessing their approach to health care, a pragmatic shift on their party's top 2020 issue.
While "Medicare for...
Sallie Bryant: Alabamians need practical solutions for health care
Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden recently unveiled his health care plan. While this public option plan may...
Terri Sewell introduces legislation to tackle growing doctor shortages
It's no secret, the demand for health care services has never been higher. But here in Alabama, and across the country, ...
Terri Sewell introduces two bills to improve rural access to health...
Democrat and Alabama 7th District U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell reached across the aisle last week to her Republican colleague Nebraska 3rd District U.S. Rep. Adrian...
Rising costs of health care leads to another rural Alabama hospital...
Due to the rising costs of health care, the Georgiana Medical Center in Georgiana, Ala. will be closing on March 31. The hospital’s owner,...
High uninsured rates plague Alabama’s rural areas, new report shows
Alabama’s small towns and rural areas have among the highest rates of uninsured low-income adult citizens in the country, and residents there are more...
Alabama Hospital Association begins campaign for Medicaid expansion
With one in every 10 patients walking into state hospitals without insurance, the Alabama Hospital Association on Thursday launched a campaign to push for...
Republicans lack votes — and appetite — to end ‘Obamacare’
Arizona's new senator says he'd vote to repeal the nation's health care law. That's one additional Republican ready to obliterate the statute because his...
