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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

The Scandals and Failures of Nathan Deal

We know that Gov. Nathan Deal has taken Georgia straight to the bottom. Georgia’s unemployment rate is now THE WORST in the nation. Deal’s ethics scandals have cost taxpayers $3.1 million in legal fees. He’s slashed education funding by $1 billion every, single year and broken the HOPE Scholarship. Four rural hospitals have closed on Gov. Deal’s watch and he’s blocking 600,000 uninsured Georgians from gaining coverage. And while many Georgia voters still don’t know

9 Ways Gov. Deal is Bad for Your Health

1. Gov. Deal is blocking Medicaid access in Georgia — even though the federal government would cover 100% of the costs for three years and 90% after that.   2. He considers sending the $34 BILLION in federal funding to other states his “biggest health care accomplishment.”   3. Deal must be proud about blocking more than 600,000 uninsured Georgians from gaining health coverage.   4. …And stopping 17,000 Georgia women a year from getting

Nathan Deal’s 3-point plan for rural hospitals

Four rural hospitals have closed under Gov. Nathan Deal’s watch and today he finally announced this three-part plan: Cut even more services to rural hospitals Make someone else responsible Form a committee We’re not kidding. This is his real plan. To show we’re not making this up, we’ll quote the official press release. 1. Cut even more services to rural hospitals. “Deal is implementing changes to the rules and regulations affecting licensure for hospitals. These

Lawmaker attacks GA hospitals; calls them ‘crack addicts’

Think for a second about your local hospital and the nurses and doctors who provide medical care for you when you’re sick. What comes to mind? For one Georgia lawmaker, he thinks, “They are like addicts on crack.” Seriously. State Rep. Jason Spencer believes our hospitals are like crack addicts because the Georgia Hospital Association would like for Georgia to join the rest of the nation and plan for the new way of paying for health