WSFA: SCOTUS hears case to strike down ‘Obamacare’

Hundreds of thousands of Alabamians would face health and financial devastation if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act. “The immediate harm that will come to Alabamians is considerable,” Arise’s Jim Carnes tells WSFA 12 in Montgomery.

Washington Post: Mass vaccinations against covid-19 will be ‘mind-blowing’ challenge for Alabama, other poor, rural states

Arise policy director Jim Carnes talked to The Washington Post about the logistical and messaging problems that state leaders must solve in getting the impending COVID-19 vaccine to Alabamians. “How are you going to get people to take a vaccine to fight a virus they don’t believe in?” he said.

Montgomery Advertiser: Medicaid expansion would save Alabama mothers from preventable deaths

After a new report found that nearly 70% of Alabama’s pregnancy-related deaths in 2016 were preventable, Arise and other members of the Cover Alabama Coalition urged lawmakers to close our state’s health coverage gap once and for all. “We encourage Gov. Kay Ivey, Commissioner Stephanie Azar and our legislators to save lives and protect families by expanding Medicaid to cover mothers before, during and after pregnancy,” Arise campaign director Jane Adams said.

WAFF: Governor has 45 days to use almost $1 billion in CARES Act funding

Gov. Kay Ivey must use or lose nearly $1 billion in federal CARES Act relief funds for Alabama before the year ends. “It is really unconceivable at a time when we know the need is out there, to our schools to our state agencies, to our food banks to our unemployment lines, that we would send back hundreds of millions of dollars that is on the table for us to use to help our people,” Arise’s Robyn Hyden tells WAFF 48 in Huntsville.