JD Crowe: Why is Medicaid expansion good for Alabama but bad for Kay Ivey?

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Politics sucks the life out of regular folks in this deep red state.

Gov. Kay Ivey is at the top of the working poor heap, barking like a dog. Stuff she doesn’t even believe. Sad. Or maybe she does. Sadder.

Here’s a brief history:

Related: Coronavirus/Medicaid expansion: Kay Ivey still blind as a bat – al.com

Related: Thaw your frozen heart, Kay Ivey. Expand Medicaid – al.com

Related: Alabama’s people are drowning in the Medicaid expansion gap – al.com

Related: Robert Bentley was too busy being the ‘Luv Guv’ to expand Medicaid – al.com

Related: Doc Bentley throws out Medicaid baby with Obamacare bathwater (Croweblog) – al.com

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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].