About 50,000 uninsured Georgians in the 10-county Coastal Georgia region could get guaranteed health coverage if Georgia accepts new federal money to expand Medicaid eligibility. That is about half the area residents between 18 and 64 without health coverage in 2012, the last year of available data. It’s the third largest number of residents of any of Georgia’s 12 state designated regions. Download the fact sheet.

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About the authors: Rox Moffett is a Policy and Press Strategist with the Georgia Youth