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Next governor could inherit Georgia’s $1.4 billion Medicaid funding fight

Pathways to Coverage is Georgia’s alternative to Medicaid expansion. It offers health care benefits to residents who are not ...

Georgia officials say new federal Medicaid rules threaten state’s partial expansion program

Georgia health officials are asking the Trump administration for more funding for the state’s partial Medicaid expansion ...

Would Gov. Brian Kemp really shut down his Pathways Medicaid program?

Patient advocates reacted with alarm this week at the suggestion by the administration of Gov. Brian Kemp that it could end Georgia Pathways to Coverage, his signature Medicaid program that gives ...
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Georgia touts its Medicaid experiment as a success. The numbers tell a different story.

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The Nation

Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 people would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 have. In 2023, when Georgia ...
Rough Draft Atlanta on MSN

Georgia gubernatorial candidates debate data centers and Medicaid expansion

Georgia gubernatorial candidates Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson presented opposing views on data center development and Medicaid expansion during a luncheon hosted by the Georgia Chamber of ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Missing paperwork costs 500,000 their Medicaid in Georgia

The number of Georgians kicked off Medicaid has now reached 596,994 as Georgia and other states continue work to drop beneficiaries who no longer qualify. That number is expected to grow as the ...
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Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as healthcare, GAO says

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The New York Times

Biden and Georgia Are Waging a Fight Over Medicaid and the Future of Obamacare

A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans. By Noah Weiland Reporting from ...
The New York Times

A Georgia Work Program Previews How Trump Could Reshape Medicaid

The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.
CNN

Georgia is now the only state with work requirements in Medicaid

Georgia is now the only state in the US to implement work requirements in its Medicaid program – a feat many Republican lawmakers nationwide will be closely monitoring. But unlike GOP-led states’ ...