Build Healthy Communities

Every Georgian deserves a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. In recent years, Georgia has made critical advancements, including expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage and increasing reimbursement rates for home- and community-based providers. Many Georgians still do not have what they need to thrive. Georgia has the third highest uninsured rate in the nation, and Georgia’s life expectancy is below the national average.  To move toward a healthier Georgia, GBPI is supporting the following priorities: 

• Improve the current Pathways to Coverage program during the 1115 waiver renewal process while also continuing to exploring more inclusive, fiscally responsible solutions for closing the health insurance coverage gap. 
• Adopt continuous Medicaid and PeachCare eligibility for children from birth through kindergarten to keep them connected to critical healthcare coverage. 
• Modernize Georgia’s public benefit eligibility and enrollment infrastructure and ensuring equitable pay for frontline workers. 
• Strengthen Georgia’s state and local public health system.   
• Expand access to supportive housing for Georgians with serious and persistent mental illness by increasing funds for the Georgia Housing Voucher Program.