Health Justice Library Policy Areas Reports Timothy Sweeney Overview: 2017 Budget for Department of Community Health February 2, 2016 / January 15, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney The proposed budget for the 2017 fiscal year starting July 1, 2016 directs $2.59 billion from the general fund to the Department of Community Health, excluding money for attached agencies. This is an increase of $157 million, or 6.5 percent, compared to the 2016 budget, though $46.5 million of that is due to the transfer […] Read more » Department of Community Health Tim Sweeney
Budget and Taxes Library Policy Areas Reports Timothy Sweeney Overview of Georgia’s 2017 Fiscal Year Budget January 20, 2016 / January 15, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney The $23.7 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2017 fiscal year represents a high water mark for state spending in a single year. The governor proposes a $1.9 billion increase in total state spending compared to the 2016 budget, but only returns overall state spending to pre-recession levels measured on a […] Read more » State Budget
Blog Budget and Taxes Featured Timothy Sweeney Record State Budget Still Reflects Austere Approach January 20, 2016 / January 15, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney You’ve no doubt heard reports that the $23.7 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2017 fiscal year starting July 1, 2016 represents a high water mark for state spending in a single year. It’s true that a healthier economy, population growth in Georgia and the willingness of lawmakers last year to […] Read more » Budget Overview State Budget
Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Struggling Health Care System Just Part of What Ails Rural Georgia November 20, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Georgia is burdened with a host of health challenges across the state, from an uninsured rate that ranks among the highest in the nation to its lack of health care providers. This figures to be exacerbated by a financial crisis at the rural hospital in Fort Oglethorpe this month. Many patients lack access to needed […] Read more » health Hospitals Rural
Featured Health Justice Reports Timothy Sweeney Understanding Medicaid in Georgia and the Opportunity to Improve It September 23, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and Georgians for a Healthy Future today announce the joint release of “Understanding Medicaid in Georgia and the Opportunity to Improve It.” In this three-part booklet you will find infographics, new data and compelling charts that simplify the complex issue of Medicaid in Georgia. Part one explains who gets […] Read more »
Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Georgia’s Need to Close Coverage Gap Flagged by New Census Report September 23, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Nearly 300,000 fewer Georgians went without health insurance in 2014 compared to 2013, a decline of about 15 percent, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data. This improvement is no doubt good news for these newly insured Georgians. Many of them enrolled in health insurance plans thanks to new financial help available provided through […] Read more » health medicaid Medicaid Expansion Tim Sweeney
Blog Timothy Sweeney School District Employees Deserve Break from Rising Insurance Premiums July 10, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Just before the close of the 2015 fiscal year at the end of June, the state released a 24-page report examining the costs of Georgia’s State Health Benefit Plan. That is the health insurance plan for state employees, teachers, and other school district employees. The report is a requirement built into Georgia’s Amended 2015 budget and […] Read more » Education health Tim Sweeney
Blog Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Supreme Court Ruling Frees Georgia to Turn Attention to Closing Coverage Gap June 25, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Today the U.S. Supreme Court again upheld a key component of the Affordable Care Act against a politically-driven effort to dismantle the law through the court system. The ruling issued in King v. Burwell protects tax credits in states such as Georgia that chose to use the federal healthcare.gov marketplace rather than create their own […] Read more » health Tim Sweeney
Blog Timothy Sweeney North Carolina Mayor Makes Long Trek to Save Rural Hospitals June 4, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney By Ann Hedges and Tim Sweeney On Monday, Belhaven, N.C. Mayor Adam O’Neal started a 283-mile walk to our nation’s capital to advocate for a way to reopen his community’s hospital. This is his second long trek to Washington, D.C. to draw attention to the struggles of rural health facilities since the Belhaven hospital shut […] Read more » Affordable Care Act health medicaid Medicaid Expansion Tim Sweeney
Blog Timothy Sweeney Georgia’s Medicaid “Experiment” a Tepid Response to Coverage Gap May 15, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney State leaders at the Department of Community Health are reportedly working with a few Georgia hospitals to take advantage of language in the recently signed 2016 Georgia budget that allows the agency to seek a federal Medicaid waiver. The language included in the 2016 budget that authorizes the department to pursue a waiver appeared in […] Read more » Affordable Care Act health medicaid Medicaid Expansion State Budget Tim Sweeney
