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How long do you want to live? How long will you live?

September 20, 2018 By Regina Willis Leave a Comment

How long do you want to live? How long will you live?

There’s a 25 year life expectancy difference across neighborhoods in Georgia. In Georgia, the neighborhood with the shortest life expectancy is just five miles south of Macon, Ga. With a poverty rate over fifty percent, the life expectancy is just over 63 years. However, Vinings, a suburb northwest of Atlanta, has a poverty rate under… [Read More]

Filed Under: Equality, Rights & Justice Issues, Healthcare, Medicaid Expansion, Rural Hospital Crisis Tagged With: Atlanta, close the coverage gap, georgia neighborhoods, Health, life expectancy, Macon, medicaid expansion, opioid epidemic, rural hospital closures, vinings, wellness

Local health care suffers under lack of state leadership

October 26, 2017 By Regina Willis Leave a Comment

Local health care suffers under lack of state leadership

Real access to healthcare is an achievable goal, but when politicians weathering the legislative session in Atlanta play politics with people’s health, communities are left scrambling to do their best in a broken system. The state needs to do more to make it possible for small, rural hospitals to stay open, and for people living… [Read More]

Filed Under: Healthcare, Rural, Rural Hospital Crisis Tagged With: dougherty county, lee county, lee county medical center, medicaid expansion, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Ralph Hudgen, rural healthcare

Poverty is confusing to the Ga. Chamber of Commerce

September 9, 2016 By Regina Willis 1 Comment

Poverty is confusing to the Ga. Chamber of Commerce

Last week, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce released their policy alternatives to expanding Medicaid, but unfortunately, their proposed solutions all show a lack of understanding of what living in poverty means. The Chamber’s policy proposals, not surprisingly, include an emphasis on “personal responsibility,” in calling for the folks who are in the Medicaid coverage gap —… [Read More]

Filed Under: Healthcare, Poverty Tagged With: georgia chamber of commerce, medicaid alternatives, medicaid expansion

New federal funding means it’s time to expand Medicaid in Georgia

August 22, 2016 By Better Georgia Staff 1 Comment

New federal funding means it’s time to expand Medicaid in Georgia

Georgia Republicans decided not to expand Medicaid under the pretense that Georgia couldn’t afford it. However, with the increase in federal funding for states adopting the next round of expanded Medicaid, Georgia can’t afford not to adopt it. The Macon Telegraph editorialized, “When Gov. Nathan Deal first declared the state wouldn’t participate in the ACA… [Read More]

Filed Under: Healthcare, Poverty Tagged With: ACA, Georgia, Health, medicaid, medicaid expansion, medicaid georgia, poverty

Louisiana expands Medicaid, will GA keep saying no?

August 8, 2016 By Regina Willis Leave a Comment

Louisiana expands Medicaid, will GA keep saying no?

Georgia’s efforts to block Medicaid expansion just got a little bit harder, following the successful expansion of Medicaid in Louisiana this summer. Conservative leadership in this state has cited cost and concerns that the federal government will back out of its commitment to fund 90 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion. This would, the argument goes, leave… [Read More]

Filed Under: Healthcare Tagged With: ACA, Louisiana, medicaid expansion, Obamacare

Healthcare for all, a dream for Georgia

August 2, 2016 By Regina Willis 1 Comment

Healthcare for all, a dream for Georgia

Half a million Georgians would gain health insurance coverage if this state expanded Medicaid in 2017. That makes up about 10 percent of the nation’s uninsured, ranking just behind Texas and Florida. Expanding Medicaid, however hard a battle it’s been, is just the beginning in the fight to make sure ALL people have meaningful access… [Read More]

Filed Under: Healthcare Tagged With: abortion care, family leave, medicaid, medicaid expansion, universal healthcare

Unterman searching for right side of history on Medicaid

June 19, 2016 By Louis Elrod 2 Comments

Unterman searching for right side of history on Medicaid

Have Georgia’s conservative lawmakers finally seen the light on Medicaid expansion? Maybe. Sen. Renee Unterman (R-Buford) (the lawmaker who made national headlines for blocking a bill to test rape kits) has been speaking publicly about moving in the direction of Medicaid expansion. This is an issue that we’ve already dissected in-depth on this blog in… [Read More]

Filed Under: 2016 Legislative Session, Casey Cagle, Ethics, General Assembly, Healthcare, Nathan Deal, Rural Hospital Crisis Tagged With: casey cagle, david ralston, Georgia GOP, Gerald Greene, Gov. Deal, gov. nathan deal, healthcare, medicaid expansion, renee unterman, sen. renee unterman

Medicaid expansion a must for Georgia’s hospitals and families

May 19, 2016 By Regina Willis 8 Comments

Medicaid expansion a must for Georgia’s hospitals and families

Rural hospital closures continue to decimate local communities in Georgia. Gov. Nathan Deal, House Speaker David Ralston and House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, among other policymakers, have all publicly addressed the issue. In other words: Everyone knows it’s a problem. But partisan politics once again gets in the way of implementing a common-sense solution. Gov. Deal… [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured, Healthcare Tagged With: close the coverage gap, maternal mortality, medicaid expansion, nathan deal, rural hospital crisis

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