Ariel Hart is a freelance journalist based in Atlanta. She previously worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The New York Times. For the last decade she has covered Georgia and U.S. health policy and politics.
More than half a million Georgians have dropped health insurance coverage amid stiff premium price hikes for federally subsidized Affordable Care Act plans, according to data obtained by The Current GAand the Georgia Recorder.
A top federal official in charge of negotiating with Gov. Brian Kemp on Georgia’s high-stakes health care proposals visited Atlanta on Tuesday to talk about maternal health and other topics.