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Medicaid Expansion

New health care bill is a Band-Aid on a gaping wound

A rural health care bill, HB 769, passed a House committee on Tuesday. The bill has received a lot of attention, but it’s missing a crucial component — Medicaid expansion. At this point, any health care bill that doesn’t include ending Georgia’s Medicaid blockade is putting a Band-Aid on a deadly, gaping wound. Rep. Betty Price and other conservative lawmakers have created a symbolic bill that sounds good but does nothing to help rural communities.

Education

Internet is too little, too late for rural Georgia

The Rural Development Council, a powerful group of state lawmakers from the Georgia House of Representatives, approved sweeping proposals aimed at bolstering rural Ga. These recommendations could become a reality if enacted by the state Legislature next year. However, the offer of providing Internet, while helpful in some ways, feels like too little, too late. Rural Georgia’s issues are manifold, including complex layers of problems related to education, health care, workforce training and infrastructure. These

Healthcare

Bernie Sanders’s universal health care bill would save Georgia lives

Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation that would expand Medicare into a universal health insurance program. At least 15 Democratic senators are backing the Sanders’s Medicare for All Act of 2017 – that’s one-third of the Senate Democratic Caucus and includes just about every Democrat seriously considering a presidential run in 2020.  “This is where the country has got to go,” Sanders said in an interview at his Senate office. “Right now, if we

Healthcare

Tell Ga. Senators to oppose new healthcare bill today!

The Senate health care bill just released Thursday does not bode well for many Georgians. Our rural communities will be some of the most impacted by the proposed cuts to Medicaid, higher premiums and reduced consumer protections. So many rural communities are already facing the devastating impacts of hospital closures or cuts to services. Pregnant people are particularly vulnerable, and pregnancy complications can become life threatening when the nearest labor-and-delivery ward is forty miles away

Healthcare

Missing: Have you seen this bill? Republicans hiding AHCA

A select group of Republicans in the Senate are pushing for a vote on the American Health Care Act or “Trumpcare” in the next week, but no one has even seen the bill. There’s a mere 13 senators leading this disaster, squabbling over and deciding health care for millions of people behind closed doors. Even other Republicans in the Senate are complaining that they haven’t laid eyes on the bill. The GOP players haven’t held

Congressional District 6

Does Handel agree with Price on targeting the old, sick?

Karen Handel has said Tom Price is the best person in the country for this job but after only a few months in Congress he’s already proposed legislation that makes life harder — and more expensive — for older, sicker Americans. Tom Price was interviewed on Fox and Friends about Trump’s alternative to the Affordable Care Act. He was specifically asked by one of the show’s hosts if older and sicker people could end up