It’s time to cover alabama

 
 

who we are

The Cover Alabama Coalition is a nonpartisan alliance of over 120 community partners, consumer groups, businesses, health care providers and faith groups advocating for the state of Alabama to provide quality, affordable health coverage to its residents and implement a sustainable health care system.

Nearly 300,000 Alabamians fall into a health coverage gap. They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to be eligible to get financial help to buy private insurance. These are hard-working men and women who are left with few options for affordable health coverage. To close that gap, our diverse coalition has come together to form Cover Alabama — urging our state to expand Medicaid now.

Expanding Alabama Medicaid would:

  • create thousands of jobs and stimulate our economy

  • bring hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars back home

  • insure thousands of Alabamians

  • cover unpaid health care costs that are hurting our hospitals

Many common-sense, conservative states have embraced expanding their Medicaid programs. If they can find state-based solutions, so can Alabama. 

MISSION

The many organizations that make up the Cover Alabama Coalition are committed to ensuring that Alabama closes the coverage gap in a way that meets the needs of the thousands of Alabamians who would become eligible for Medicaid expansion coverage, while protecting the state’s 1 million current Medicaid members.  

PRINCIPLES

THE COALITION BELIEVES IN:

  • Maximizing the federal investment in Alabama’s health care

  • The availability of quality, affordable health coverage for every Alabamian

  • Protecting current Medicaid members and services

  • Ensuring a common-sense system that meets consumers’ needs and limits additional administrative hurdles and costs

want to join us?

If you have a group that is interested in joining the Cover Alabama coalition and our listserv, please fill out this form. New coalition partners are approved by the steering committee.

Coalition MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

full list

 
  • AARP Alabama

  • Accessible Alabama

  • AIDS Alabama

  • Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

  • Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice

  • Alabama Arise

  • Alabama Asthma Coalition

  • Alabama Black Women's Roundtable

  • Alabama Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Alabama Child Health Improvement Alliance

  • Alabama Children First Foundation

  • Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice

  • The Alabama Council for Behavioral Healthcare

  • Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program

  • Alabama Faith Council

  • Alabama Institute for Social Justice

  • Alabama Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

  • Alabama Primary Health Care Association

  • Alabama Rare

  • Alabama Regional Medical Services

  • Alabama Rural Health Association

  • Alabama Solutions, a grassroots movement

  • Alabama State Conference of the NAACP

  • Alabama State Nurses Association

  • Alabama West Florida Conference Board of Church & Society, United Methodist Church

  • Aledade

  • Aletheia House

  • All Saints Episcopal Church, Mobile

  • American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.

  • American College of Nurse Midwives (Alabama Chapter)

  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

  • American College of Physicians Alabama Chapter

  • American Heart Association

  • American Lung Association in Alabama

  • Ascension Alabama (St. Vincent's Health System and Providence Hospital)

  • AshaKiran

  • Baptist Church of the Covenant (Birmingham)

  • Baypines United Methodist Women

  • Bayou Clinic

  • Behavioral Healthcare Alliance of Alabama

  • Beloved Community Church, Birmingham

  • BirthWell Partners Community Doula Project

  • Birmingham Friends Meeting

  • Birmingham Urban League

  • Black Voters Matter Fund

  • Cahaba Medical Care

  • Church and Society Committee, Anniston First United Methodist Church

  • Commission on Social Concerns and Human Justice, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

  • Community Education Group

  • Community Enabler Developer, Inc.

  • Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama

  • Disabilities Leadership Coalition of Alabama

  • Disability Rights and Resources

  • Doctors for America

  • Epilepsy Foundation Alabama

  • Episcopal Diocese of Alabama

  • Faith in Action Alabama

  • Fall Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Center

  • First Congregational United Church of Christ, Birmingham

  • Five Horizons Health Services

  • Freewill Missionary Baptist Church

  • Focus Women’s Conference

  • Forest Lake United Methodist Church

  • GASP

  • Grace Presbyterian Church, PC (USA)

  • Greater Birmingham Ministries

  • Gulf States Health Policy Center

  • Health Action Partnership of Jefferson County

  • Health Education Linkage Program (HELP)

  • Health Services Center

  • Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama (HICA)

  • Hometown Action

  • Hopewell African Methodist Episcopal Church (Birmingham)

  • Human Rights Campaign Alabama

  • Huntsville Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • Indoor Air Advocates

  • Interfaith Montgomery

  • International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 900

  • Jefferson County Department of Health

  • Lakeshore Foundation

  • League of Women Voters of Alabama

  • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

  • Low Income Housing Coalition of Alabama

  • March of Dimes

  • Medical Association of the State of Alabama

  • Medical Advocacy & Outreach

  • Montgomery (AL) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

  • NAMI Alabama

  • NaphCare

  • National Association of Social Workers - Alabama Chapter

  • National MS Society

  • North Alabama Conference Advocacy for Social Justice Team, United Methodist Church

  • North Alabama Labor Council

  • Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama

  • Oral Health Coalition of Alabama

  • Partners in Health

  • Peacemaking Committee of North Alabama Presbytery, a congregation of the PCUSA

  • People First of Alabama

  • Positive Women’s Network - Alabama

  • Progressive Women of Northeast Alabama

  • Southern Poverty Law Center

  • Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative - Alabama

  • St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Birmingham

  • St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Birmingham

  • St. Michael’s Medical Clinic

  • STAY FOCUSED PROJECT INC.

  • Tennessee Valley Progressive Alliance

  • The Arc of Alabama

  • The E.WE Foundation

  • The Knights & Orchids Society

  • The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

  • The Right Place for Housing and Support, Inc.

  • The Wellness Coalition

  • The Women's Foundation of Alabama

  • Thrive Alabama

  • Together for Hope

  • Transgender Advocates Knowledgably Empowering (TAKE)

  • United Cerebral Palsy of Huntsville and Tennessee Valley

  • United Women of Color

  • Unity Wellness Center

  • Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham

  • VOICES For Alabama’s Children

  • Wings Across Alabama

  • Women As Strength Project

  • Women in Training, Inc. (WIT)

  • World Alive International Outreach

  • YMCA Of Greater Birmingham

  • YWCA Central Alabama

  • Zonta Club of Birmingham

 
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