By Robert Reich – Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit theyâve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. As House Speaker Paul Ryan says âWeâre going to have to get⦠at entitlement reform, which is how you…
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Looking Back on Tumultuous Year, 2016
Alabama Legislature Bends: Finds Last Minute Compromise to Save Medicaid
By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. â After all the pressure from the Watchdog Press, all the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth by every special interest group all over the state and their favorite legislators convened to get what they want — and maybe in the process help the sick and poor just a little…
A Prayer for Alabama Legislature: Bless Us With Disaster, Sweet Jesus
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – A prayer for the Alabama legislature as it reconvenes in a special session, following another special session that failed to find funding enough to allow the state’s Medicaid services to function at a level keeping the needy alive. Schemes to finance the services with a lottery, or with…
Alabama Lottery Stopgap Medicaid Plan Dies in Failure for Governor Bentley
Alabama Governor Bentley’s Lottery Plan to Fund Medicaid Dies in Special Session ‘Train Wreck’
Governor Bentley Calls Special Session For Lottery Vote
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — While the greatest political show on earth was going on live from Philedelphia on the Internet and most television news channels, with one of the greatest orators to ever occupy the Oval Office addressing the Democratic National Convention and calling on the election of Hillary Clinton to be…
Everything’s Connected: Alabama Medicaid and You
Back bone connected to the shoulder bone, â¨Shoulder bone connected to the neck bone, â¨Neck bone connected to the head boneâ¨, And thatâs the way it goes — Dem Bones – By Pippa Abston, MD – You probably recognize that verse — you may have sung this more recent secular version or the original by…
Open Letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley – Please Fully Fund Medicaid
Watch this short video with an exchange between watchdog reporter Glynn Wilson and state Senator Trip Pittman – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — This is an open letter to Alabama’s Republican Governor Robert Bentley asking him to please fully fund Medicaid. Dear Governor Bentley: I know times are tough.…
Right-to-Lifers Vote to Kill Children and Kidney Patients
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – The fetus is the new Jerusalem. Medieval crusaders fancied they were on a divine mission when they marched toward the Holy City to save it from the Muslim infestation. The sanctity of this quest gave them permission to do whatever advanced toward the goal. Rape and plunder propelled…
HUGE Medicaid Crisis Looms in Alabama
Critics Say More People Are Going to Die Needlessly Due to Legislative Inaction – Watch this shocking video to see what legislators are saying about the inevitability of many people dying due to the budget shortfall. – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — More sick babies, old folks and poor people are just going…
Concerned Citizens to Converge on Montgomery for Medicaid Hearing
By Glynn Wilson – A number of people from across Alabama have indicated they will converge on Montgomery Wednesday, April 20, when a joint committee of the House and Senate will hold a hearing on the problems of funding Medicaid in the state. After Governor Robert Bentley refused for the past three years to accept…
Alabama Legislators Want ‘Blood on the Floor’: Especially the Blood of Children and Grandparents
Why We Allow Big Pharma to Rip Us Off
By Robert Reich – According to a new federal database put online last week, pharmaceutical companies and device makers paid doctors some $380 million in speaking and consulting fees over a five-month period in 2013. Some doctors received over half a million dollars each, and others got millions of dollars in royalties from products they…
Fake Medicaid or No Medicaid? Don’t Buy It
By Pippa Abston – MD, PhD, FAAP – Governor Bentley has persisted in failing to offer hope for the uninsured poor in Alabama, through a Medicaid Expansion or otherwise. Behind the scenes, various insiders are passing rumors not to worry — he really will do it … after the primary. Or after the general election.…