Blog Health Justice Laura Harker How to Protect and Expand Health Care Access in Georgia August 3, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by Laura Harker The defeat of health care legislation in the U.S. Senate last week marked a milestone in the effort to protect health care coverage in Georgia. People across the state raised their voice to protest proposed drastic cuts to Medicaid and the loss of health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of Georgians. Medicaid serves 2 […] Read more » Affordable Care Act health health-care medicaid Medicaid Expansion
Blog Claire Suggs K-12 Education Proposed Medicaid Cuts Threaten Georgia’s Most Vulnerable Students July 13, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by Claire Suggs More than 118,000 students in Georgia cope with disabilities. Some are students with visual or hearing impairments while others have autism or developmental delays. Many have learning disabilities, speech impairments or other intellectual or physical disabilities. These children need extra support to attend classes with their peers and fulfill their potential. This extra support requires […] Read more » Education health K-12 medicaid
Budget Primer Health Justice Laura Harker Reports Georgia Health Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2018 July 12, 2017 / March 23, 2021 by Laura Harker Georgia Health Care Budget Overview Health care services are primarily delivered through three state agencies: the departments of Community Health, Public Health and Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. State funding for these three agencies totals $4.5 billion in 2018, about 18 percent of total state spending. General Fund appropriations for these agencies account for $3.9 […] Read more » Behavioral Health Department of Public Health health Hospitals medicaid PeachCare
GBPI In The News Crippling Medicaid cuts could upend rural health services July 10, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin Each day as Ginger Peebles watches daughter Brenlee grow, she sees the importance of having a hospital close by that delivers babies. Brenlee’s birth was touch-and-go after Peebles realized something was wrong. “I couldn’t feel the baby move, and my blood pressure was sky-high,” said Peebles, a nurse. Dr. Roslyn Banks-Jackson, then an OB-GYN specialist at […] Read more » Affordable Care Act medicaid Rural hospitals
Blog Health Justice Senate Health Bill Shrinks Health Care Access, Makes Deep Long-Term Cuts to Medicaid July 6, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by Laura Harker The U.S. Senate is set to take up a fundamental upending of federal health care law as soon as next week, a move that threatens to turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Georgians upside down. Senators released their version of a health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, late last […] Read more » Affordable Care Act Laura Harker medicaid
Blog Health Justice John McCosh How Medicaid Benefits Help Joshua Proffitt Achieve His Dream June 28, 2017 / January 16, 2020 by John McCosh The email dated May 11, 2017 from the East Georgia State College academic office felt ominous to Joshua Proffitt. He asked his mother to read it to him. It was not bad news. “You made the Dean’s Merit List!” Mitzi Proffitt said. “You have a 3.5 GPA!” It’s another milestone on a remarkable journey for […] Read more » health health-care medicaid
GBPI In The News Medicaid recipients with disabilities face funding cuts under GOP bills June 26, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The potential cuts in the Medicaid program, as outlined in the GOP health care bills, have a deeply felt meaning for Mitzi Proffitt and her family. Read the full story at Georgia Health News. Read more » Federal Health 2017 health Laura Harker medicaid
GBPI In The News Senate health insurance plan would cost Georgians June 23, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The U.S. Senate has unveiled its much-anticipated legislation to unravel the Affordable Care Act, releasing a proposal Thursday that has some key differences from the House health care overhaul. Like the House bill, the Senate version — crafted in secrecy by 13 Republican senators — would slash Medicaid, which covers millions of Americans (including roughly […] Read more » Federal Health 2017 health Laura Harker medicaid
GBPI In The News New health care proposal would have big impact on Georgia June 22, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin Georgians, like the rest of the nation, finally came face to face with the U.S. Senate’s long-hidden health care proposal Thursday. And one way or another, they said, its impact on the state could be profound. Liberals decried its potential impact on women’s health and care for the poor. After a quick look at the […] Read more » Federal Health 2017 health Laura Harker medicaid
GBPI In The News Georgia children’s hospitals vulnerable to health-care reform bill June 22, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The health-care reform bill congressional Republicans passed last month particularly threatens children’s hospitals in Georgia, according to a new study. Read the full article at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read more » Federal Health 2017 health medicaid
