GBPI In The News Expanding Medicaid in Georgia has benefits, experts say September 24, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by GBPI Admin he state of Georgia will eventually expand its Medicaid program “because the numbers are so compelling,” a health care economist for Georgia State Univerﾭsity said Thursday at a policy forum in Augusta. Read more. Read more » coverage-gap Medicaid Expansion Tim Sweeney
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
GBPI In The News Feds make financial pitch for Medicaid expansion June 5, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by GBPI Admin The Obama administration rolled out new statistics this week to buttress the argument that Georgia should expand its Medicaid program. Read more. Read more » health insurance medicaid 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
GBPI In The News Grady Health System outlines plan to transform care for the uninsured May 8, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by GBPI Admin Grady Health System realized it couldn’t count on Medicaid expansion anytime soon, so it went looking for a different path. Read more. Read more » health insurance medicaid Tim Sweeney
Author Blog Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Mixed Bag for Georgians’ Health Care in 2015 Legislature April 27, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Georgia lawmakers left town earlier this month after producing a 2016 state spending plan that invests no more money overall for health care than the state did last year. Georgia ranks near the bottom of all states for health care investment and the consequences include hundreds of thousands of uninsured Georgians and hospitals that struggle […] Read more » health Tim Sweeney
Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Missed Opportunity to Extend Health Care to More Georgians April 2, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Georgia is home to the fifth most residents without health coverage of any state according to 2013 data, the latest available. Despite this poor ranking, Georgia’s leaders continue to refuse new federal funding to close Georgia’s coverage gap. Accepting this money could extend health coverage to as many as 500,000 uninsured Georgians, while pumping billions of dollars into […] Read more » Affordable Care Act health medicaid Medicaid Expansion Tim Sweeney
