“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” – Matthew 25:40
There are doctors throughout Alabama who do the majority of their work for “the least of these” – children, the elderly and the disabled, the patients for whom our Medicaid program is designed.
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