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Supreme Court upholds health care. Deal still blocks insurance for 600,000 Georgians.

The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld a key component of the Affordable Care Act – guaranteeing the law will be here to provide affordable insurance for decades to come. While this is good news for Georgia, Gov. Deal’s Medicaid blockade continues to drag our state down. While many Georgians are benefiting from increased access to affordable, quality health insurance, our poorest neighbors have been struggling in the coverage gap. Instead of acting to fully implement

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Supreme Court decision could put health insurance at risk

Georgia’s rural hospital crisis could soon get much, much worse. The Supreme Court, in the King v. Burwell case, will soon decide whether millions of people in 34 states, including 412,000 here in Georgia, will lose premium tax credits they rely on to make health insurance affordable. Without those tax credits, most of the people affected would be unable to buy insurance and would become uninsured. Below is a chart to show how many Georgians are

Unfinished business

As lawmakers gather in Atlanta today to start a new Legislative session there are at least two issues from last year still hanging over the Gold Dome like a dark cloud: Georgia’s hospital crisis Religious discrimination legislation Before Georgia’s lawmakers went home last year, four rural hospitals stopped services and slammed their doors shut for good. Our lawmakers did nothing but make it harder to help the rural communities who depend on hospitals for emergency

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Nathan Deal’s failures and scandals

GOV. DEAL’S SCANDALS Gov. Deal is up to his eyes in scandals as he asks for your vote. Here are just a few: Gainesville Salvage – When Nathan Deal was in Congress, the Congressional Ethics committee launched an investigation into his shady business practices. Congress determined that Deal had improperly used the power of his public office to secure business contracts from the state of Georgia for his private business, Gainesville Salvage. (Download the 152-page

Too busy for Georgia.

We’ve seen a troubling pattern with Gov. Nathan Deal. Instead of taking care of Georgia’s business, Gov. Deal is busy taking care of his own personal interests and constantly trying to fix scandals. Whether he is preparing to testify in court about an alleged cover-up of his campaign’s finance violations, or putting $76 million dollars in federal funding at risk, or collecting $20,000 per month rent from one of Georgia’s largest corporate tax debtors, Gov.

How much damage can lawmakers do in one session?

The best thing we can say about Georgia’s 2014 Legislative Session is that it’s over. Republicans in both chambers spent the session trying to restrict access to affordable health care, forcing radical anti-choice legislation on female state employees and working to allow guns in places they don’t belong. They even attempted to legalize discrimination under the guise of “religious freedom.” Here’s a wrap-up of what our legislators were busy doing this session: “The Preservation of