People rallied calm Saturday, accustomed signs and slogans in hopes that Governor Robert Bentley would aggrandize Medicaid in Alabama.(Photo: Rebecca Burylo)
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The Capitol Steps brimmed with bodies Saturday who rallied together, accustomed signs and slogans in hopes that Governor Robert Bentley would aggrandize Medicaid in Alabama.
Their ambition was to present added than 10,000 signatures from bodies beyond the accompaniment who abatement in what they alarm "The Gap," bodies who are clumsy to get affordable healthcare or Medicaid.
Save OurSelves: A Movement for Justice and Demoncracy, or SOS, fabricated up of 40 organizations and faith-based ministries, presented added than 13,653 signatures to the Capitol doorstep in a casket agitated by six pallbearers.
The apologue was not absent on Callie Greer from Montgomery, who absent her babe to breast blight afterwards they both abounding aftermost year's assemblage together.
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"I'm acknowledging my daughter, Venus Colley-Mims. My babe didn't acquire a job and didn't acquire bloom insurance. She went to the Baptist bloom centermost emergency allowance for two years accusatory about a agglomeration in her breast and afterwards two years of visits, her breast was actually rotten," Greer said.
When Greer's babe was assuredly beatific to the blight centermost for anaplasty and chemo, her blight was already date four and had advance throughout her body, Greer said. Mims died anon after.
Greer batten at the assemblage on account of her babe in hopes that no added ancestor would lose a son or babe the way she did.
Organizer, Sophia Bracy-Harris said the ambition of the assemblage was not political, but rather to accord the 300,000, in Alabama after bloom allowance a face, such as Greer's daughter.
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"It's absolutely not about Republican or Democrat, it's not about Washington D.C.," Harris said. "The bodies who are actuality today are putting a face on who the 300,000 bodies are. They're people, they are our neighbors, they are our family, and alive bodies in this state."
Harris said the Governor Bentley would not be there at the assemblage to acquire the signatures.
"That's Ok … we'll abide to accomplish our articulation arch and that's what this assemblage is about," Harris said.
SOS Bloom Committee Chair Barbara Howard said the attack to get signatures started a few months ago as able-bodied as adopting acquaintance amid accompaniment residents.
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"We've exceeded that goal, and they are still advancing in. The cardinal of signatures we've calm in such a abbreviate aeon of time tells me there are abounding Alabamians who are accessible to move accomplished address to assure the bloom of their adolescent citizens, which helps us all," Howard said.
For added information, appointment www.SOSMovement.net beneath "Expand Medicaid in Alabama."
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