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Whitmire: Kay Ivey Is Going To Kill My Hometown
https://www.al.com/news/2024/10/whitmire-kay-ivey-is-going-to-kill-my-hometown.htmlDuring his term and a half in office, Robert Bentley, a doctor, refused to expand Medicaid in Alabama. Now that he’s out of politics, he says that was a mistake and has pleaded with the Alabama Legislature and his successor to change their minds.
However, Bentley’s Ghost of Governors Past routine did little to persuade Kay Ivey.
“On the question of expanding Medicaid, she remains concerned for how the state would pay for it long-term,” Ivey’s spokeswoman said when my AL.com colleague Patrick Darrington asked if now she would change her mind.
Ivey’s been saying that since Bentley turned in his notice. You’d think in the eight years she’s been in office, she might have found a way. After all, she found more than $1 billion for a new prison, and she directed millions to a waterpark in Montgomery.
However, Bentley’s Ghost of Governors Past routine did little to persuade Kay Ivey.
“On the question of expanding Medicaid, she remains concerned for how the state would pay for it long-term,” Ivey’s spokeswoman said when my AL.com colleague Patrick Darrington asked if now she would change her mind.
Ivey’s been saying that since Bentley turned in his notice. You’d think in the eight years she’s been in office, she might have found a way. After all, she found more than $1 billion for a new prison, and she directed millions to a waterpark in Montgomery.