Senate Democrats Blocked on Medicaid Effort

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By Alabama News Network

Story Created: Feb 21, 2013 at 4:43 PM CDT

Story Updated: Feb 21, 2013 at 4:43 PM CDT

Democrats in the Alabama Senate are having trouble pressing their top issue.

 

Senate Minority Leader Vivian Davis Figures of Mobile offered a resolution Thursday urging the Republican governor to reconsider his decision not to expand Medicaid. The Senate's Republican leader, President Pro Tem Del Marsh, cut off debate on the resolution by getting it sent to the Senate Rules Committee.

 

Figures says expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act is the top priority for the Senate Democratic Caucus because it would add 300,000 Alabamians to the Medicaid rolls and create jobs. She says the caucus won't give up on its efforts to get Gov. Robert Bentley to reconsider.

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