Healthcare
Affordable, Accessible Healthcare
We have to fight the insurance and hospital monopolies that control Alabama and drive up our costs. And expanding Medicaid will protect rural hospitals, improve access, and lower costs for everyone.
What Linderholm will do
- Expand Medicaid to protect rural hospitals, improve access, and lower costs for everyone.
- Take on the insurance and hospital monopolies that drive up what Alabama families pay.
- Fight to keep our hospitals, labor and delivery units, and emergency rooms open.
- Funding for rural hospitals in 2026
- $200M
- Estimated loss from Medicaid cuts to those same hospitals
- $600M
- Lost by not expanding Medicaid
- $8B+
In his own words
We are facing a crisis in healthcare in Alabama.
Rural hospitals
Alabama is getting about $200 million in funding for rural hospitals for 2026, but losing an estimated $600 million from Medicaid cuts that will hit those very same hospitals. That’s a net negative of $400 million, but we are told they have “saved” our rural hospitals. Nonsense.
Five hospitals have closed their labor and delivery units and several have shut down everything except their ER. We may lose 20 or more hospitals in the next few years.
Everything from rural hospitals, to veteran care, to pre-natal care is being stretched too thin. Some residents face a drive of an hour or longer to reach a hospital.
Insurance costs
Insurance for Alabama families is heading through the roof, whether you receive your coverage through your employer, or HealthCare.gov, or through the open market.
Medicaid expansion
Alabama should have expanded Medicaid long ago, and not doing so has lost us over $8 billion, while pushing our healthcare costs beyond what many can afford. The current legislature has refused to do this year after year. Imagine what we could have achieved for affordable healthcare in Alabama with that money! And remember, your federal taxes went to pay for better and more affordable healthcare in the other states that took the Medicaid expansion: that’s reason enough right there to replace the current leadership in Montgomery!
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