By Guest Columnist LIZ COYLE, executive director, Georgia Watch
More than a year into the pandemic, Georgia is still facing many pressing challenges. The highly contagious Delta variant followed by the Omicron variant, and low vaccination rates across the state, are driving a prolonged COVID-19 impact.
But as usual, the budget is mostly health care and education
For Kemp’s team, it’s ideally a short-term assist that would boost folks into the kind of jobs that come with health care benefits. For critics, it’s a plan that leaves too many people out.
Gov. Brian Kemp’s plan could cover a lot of people defined in some broad way, or it might be just a few, maybe with some specific, high-cost conditions.
Georgia will have about $27.5 billion to spend in the year that begins in July. The new governor is making proposed teacher raises a centerpiece. Democrats are pressing to spend on a Medicaid expansion.
By Kristi Fuller, Georgia Health Policy Center As a single mother of two young girls, Michelle found herself in a nursing facility after suffering from a brain-stem stroke which led to loss of speech and quadriplegia. “No one belongs in a nursing facility,” Michelle* said, “especially not at 34 years old. These are good people […]
By Guest Columnist BOBBY JONES, president, Georgia market, CareSource
Medicaid in Georgia, which provides healthcare to approximately 1.8 million low income and disabled residents, is the second largest line item in the state’s budget for fiscal year 2018, which ends June 30.
By Carolyn Bourdeaux and Peter Bluestone With the election of Donald Trump as president, the plight of rural America has taken on increased prominence. A September 2016 report by the Center for State and Local Finance estimated that as of 2014 rural areas in Georgia had 58,000 fewer jobs than they had in 2007 (around […]
