While Georgia Democrats and health-care advocates have long pushed for full-blown Medicaid expansion, Kemp said the purpose of his more limited program is to transition low-income Georgians from Georgia Pathways to Georgia Access, a program that provides insurance coverage through the private sector....
And the governor defended his limited expansion of Georgia’s Medicaid program against Democrats advocating a full Medicaid expansion as 39 states have done. “We’re covering well over 200,000 more Georgians than traditional Medicaid expansion would cover,” Kemp said. “And those Georgians are ...
A key section of the bill requires that the managed care companies that cover more than 1 million Georgia Medicaid patients spend at least 85 percent of the dollars they receive from the program on medical care and quality improvements. GHN and Kaiser Health News reported that Georgia is one o...
which is the second highest in the US. We must institute a care coordination program within Medicaid aimed at lowering the maternal mortality rate overall and especially for women of color, who die in labor at more than twice the rate of other women. ...
“We need everyone to kind of own some of this because Grady can’t really do everything,” Claeys said.”“We’re hanging on by our fingernails every time there’s threats of significant Medicaid cuts because those things will affect our hospital.” ...
Maybe that is because Medicare and Social Security are much larger and more deeply engrained in a more politically empowered section of society than TANF and Medicaid. Or, maybe the programs are popular because they simply work. The elderly of the United Statesare living longer. People love...