The Patients First Act (SB 106) could significantly change health care in Georgia, but questions remain. Medicaid expansion has proven successful and the Section 1115 waiver can increase Medicaid income eligibility up to the poverty line, but state leaders are signaling that the waiver might instead address other ways of reforming Medicaid. Read the full editorial by GBPI health policy analyst Laura Harker at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
GBPI Responds to Gov. Kemp’s Budget Instructions to Keep State Spending Flat
Daniel Kanso, PhD
July 30, 2026
Over the past eight years (Fiscal Year 2020 to Fiscal Year 2027), Georgia’s per-person state
