There is a hell of a lot of poor white people in Alabama, I believe Medicaid expansion would have covered 50 percent of the population of Alabama, 300 percent of poverty level in New York is a lot of people, 300 percent of the poverty level in Alabama is around the median income, which is 45,000

The Medicaid expansion was initially required of the states under the Affordable Care Act with near full funding coming from the federal government. Republicans sued the federal government all the way up to the Supreme Court to ensure that states wouldn't be forced to take federal money to take care of their states' citizens. By making the Medicaid expansion optional, Republicans made sure it wouldn't work as well as it was designed to work; the price was a sicker populace and more citizens dying of preventable and treatable causes.

The rationale behind the Medicaid expansion was to make more people eligible for treatment, and the federal government would pay for the initial high costs of getting people on a program of regular medical care, because most states have constitutional prohibitions against running a deficit. Once citizens were in a program of regular medical care, their ongoing costs would be manageable, predictable, and lower, and as years went by, the cost would be transferred from the federal government to the individual states. Republicans could not allow that result to stand! A healthier population might not be as fearful as Republicans require for their proposals to be accepted.

Luther Strange wants the people of Alabama to be sick and scared.

Like saying you treated the horse's illness to help the horse by shooting it in the head.

These scumbags have no heart – compassion – simply selfish.

Maybe that's what Alabama wants