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Moving Alabama Forward -- ACPP Policy Conference, Fri., Feb. 8, Auburn University MontgomeryYou won't want to miss "Moving Alabama Forward," the 2013 ACPP Policy Conference, Fri., Feb. 8, at Auburn University Montgomery. This year's event comes at a particularly urgent and promising time for improving public policies that affect our most vulnerable neighbors. During opening week of the 2013 legislative session, the conference will highlight:
The registration deadline is Feb. 1. Get the registration brochure here. Arise Daily News Digest 2-1-2013AL.COM - Alabama State Bar lawyer referral program served more than 8,000 clients in 2012. AL.COM - Madison County Democrats blast Rep. Mo Brooks, call proposal 'stupid.' AL.COM - Alabama's two-year college system aims to expand worker training pacts with businesses around the state. AL.COM - More than 1,000 Cooper Green Mercy Hospital patients have missed doctor visits this month. AL.COM - Alabama economy still primed for strong growth in 2013, Philly Fed says. AL.COM - Alabama to receive more than $1 million in multi-state settlement, attorney general announces. AL.COM - Group credits Alabama's trauma system with statewide decrease in trauma deaths. AL.COM – Columnist George Talbot: Alabama’s inconvenient truth. AL.COM – Columnist John Archibald: The bad news: Bama's "not-hot-cities" list. AL.COM - Contributor Cameron Smith: Energy in Alabama: Transparency or Tactical Agenda at the Public Service Commission? AL.COM - Contributor Joey Kennedy: Hard to see how Bill Armistead survives as Republican Party chairman. AL.COM - Poverty, lack of education puts Alabama near bottom of financial security ranks. AL.COM - The way Alabama collects taxes is 'terrible,' among nation's worst, report says. AL.COM - Vivian Figures says she favors communication over combat as she begins term as minority leader. AL.COM - Public Service Commissioner Terry Dunn: No treehugger but no retiring wallflower either. AL.COM – Columnist John Archibald: Why rank best and worst Alabama cities? Because we're only as pretty as our ugliness. (FLORENCE) TIMES DAILY - Senate leader says general fund coming up short. ANNISTON STAR – The Anniston Star: It’ll cost you to smoke: Government is right to discourage people from smoking. ANNISTON STAR – The Anniston Star: A message for Twinkle: From Alabama’s demagogues to its chief of the PSC. MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER - Holmes asks Bentley to remove National Guard leader. MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER - Sessions critical of Hagel on nuclear weapons during confirmation hearings. MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER - The Montgomery Advertiser: Julia Tutwiler would be appalled by prison report. MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER - Contributor H. Julian Gordy: Immigration law appeal totally wrong. DOTHAN EAGLE - The Dothan Eagle: What are we to make of this? WASHINGTON POST - Citizenship question roils both parties as immigration debate gets underway. WASHINGTON POST - Columnist Ruth Marcus: The phony pro-gun argument. NEW YORK TIMES - Small Town in Alabama Confronts Boy’s Kidnapping NEW YORK TIMES - Focus on Mental Health Laws to Curb Violence Is Unfair, Some Say NEW YORK TIMES – Contributor Arthur Brooks: My Valuable, Cheap College Degree NEW YORK TIMES – Columnist Paul Krugman: Looking for Mister Goodpain POLITICO - Poll: Alabama most conservative state.
Bad finance leads to bad romance!Join us for a National Day of Action! Hundreds from across the Birmingham region will gather on Valentine's Day to call for changes to predatory loans that victimize working Alabamians. Connect with like-minded advocates at the YWCA Central Alabama on Feb. 14th at 11:30 a.m. to hear more about the devastation these loans have caused for our neighbors in Birmingham and lend your voice in the fight against abusive lending practices. YWCA Gymnasium 309 23rd St. N., Birmingham Thurs., Feb. 14, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Lunch provided -- Walk-ins are welcome, but RSVPs will help us plan: RSVP by Feb. 11 to Jacob Smith -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (205) 322-9922 x 306 Alabama's Medicaid reform should put patients firstACPP appreciates the opportunity to represent consumer interests on the Alabama Medicaid Advisory Commission. Toward that end, we have assembled a coalition of advocacy organizations to provide consumer input on the reform process. The coalition has identified eight core principles of consumer-centered Medicaid reform. Medicaid Commission recommends community approach over commercial managed careThe Alabama Medicaid Advisory Commission overwhelmingly voted this afternoon to recommend the state go with a community care approach -- instead of statewide commercial managed care -- to try to control spending in the healthcare program for the poor. The commission, with only one dissenting vote, voted to recommend a primary care case management approach in which care providers are responsible for monitoring and approving the care of people on Medicaid. State Health Officer Don Williamson said it would take statewide a model that is already used to some degree in Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, Opelika and Mobile. ACPP communications director Jim Carnes praised the commission's decision saying he thought a community care model would be more patient-centered than a statewide commercial managed care approach. |
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