
Dr. Alan Shapiro, of the Children’s Health Fund in New York, gives an asthma breathing test to Ja’Shayna Davis in Gulfport, Mississippi, on September 13, 2005. Source: AP/Darron Cummings
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015. One decade after the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama felt the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina, the Center for American Progress examines how those states’ refusal to expand Medicaid coverage has contributed to the region’s health care coverage gap and…






