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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.

Healthcare

Trump’s unaffordable healthcare “solutions” threaten Georgians

Trump has done two things that make insurance less affordable: he eliminated individual mandates, and he signed an executive order allowing people to receive cheaper coverage through potentially fake, low coverage, “association plans.” Although neither of these changes “undo” the Affordable Care Act, as Trump likes to brag, they both succeed in taking affordability out of the equation and will have serious consequences, especially for older and poorer Americans. Removing individual mandates takes away the

Healthcare

South Ga. hospital treating tornado victims scheduled to close

Rural hospital closures continue to be a deadly problem. Now, the fate of one South Georgia hospital that has been treating victims of the recent tornadoes and another facility in Monroe County are uncertain. Local residents of Adel, Ga. are hoping the hospital will reconsider the decision to shutter Cook Medical Center, their branch of Tifton Regional. However, that wish is unlikely to be granted given that the hospital has been losing to $2.6 million per