Medicaid Expansion
Alabama Arise is proud to be a member of the Cover Alabama Coalition, a group of advocates, businesses, faith leaders and health care professionals making the case for Medicaid expansion. Click here to learn more about Cover Alabama.
Hundreds of thousands of Alabama adults have no health coverage. Tens of thousands of them suffer daily because they can't afford treatment for chronic health conditions like cancer, diabetes or heart disease. Hundreds die every year as a result. Meanwhile, eight rural hospitals have closed in Alabama since 2011, and many others are at risk of the same fate.
Medicaid expansion would reduce human suffering and strengthen Alabama's health care system. It would save lives and deliver financial peace of mind to families who desperately need it. And it would create jobs and generate tax revenues by pumping billions of federal dollars into the state's economy. Arise's research reveals why Medicaid expansion is the right choice for Alabama from economic, health and moral standpoints.
Featured Resources
Fact Sheet
What we know about the health care changes in the new federal budget law
Personal Stories
Virginia wants you to join her in protecting health coverage in Alabama
Virginia would say things have been going well since moving back home to Birmingham a year ago – steady even. She said consistency has been key in staying healthy when life takes on unexpected changes.
And Virginia has had to navigate some unexpected changes recently.
Fact Sheet
Federal budget bill threatens health coverage for 190,000 Alabamians
Personal Stories
Medicaid helped save her daughter’s life. Angelica wants it to be there for other Alabamians, too
Angelica is outspoken about the misconceptions and stigmas that often surround federal programs serving Alabama families. She said that in the past, more than half of her paycheck would be spent on private insurance.
Resources
HB 177: A case study in Alabama Arise advocacy
Alabama Arise successfully leapt into action this year to defend health coverage for thousands of children across our state.
Personal Stories
Medicaid Expansion Advocacy Day – Feb. 25, 2025
Fact Sheet
Vote ‘No’ on SB 84 and HB 477: Junk health plans are not the solution for Alabama’s health coverage gap
Personal Stories
‘It shouldn’t be like this’
“If working people could get the coverage they deserve, we wouldn’t even be where we are now. Here in the Black Belt, or anywhere else.”
Personal Stories
‘I just want to go to the doctor’
“I get these bills in the mail, and it’s so much stress. I don’t like owing people money. So I just don’t get help even when I’m in pain.”
Personal Stories
‘Coverage needs to be affordable for everyone’
Valerie is disabled, living without health coverage in rural Wilcox County. After 30 surgeries, she’s got thousands of dollars in medical debt.
