January 12, 2015
By Andy Miller,
Unlike its counterparts in other states, the Georgia Hospital Association has not been seen as actively advocating for Medicaid expansion.
A number of states have expanded their Medicaid programs, making more low-income people eligible for benefits and thus helping hospitals financially by reducing their numbers of uninsured patients.
But expansion has gone nowhere in Georgia. Gov. Nathan Deal and his fellow Republicans who dominate the General Assembly have made a point of blocking such a move, saying it would cost the state too much money.
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Adam Searing of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families added that in the states that have expanded Medicaid, “there’s an increasingly strong body of evidence of the substantial and immediate benefits to hospitals.”
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