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News Articles: medicaid expansion

Demonstrators calling for preservation of Medicaid funding, are removed from the House Energy and Commerce markup of the budget resolution in Rayburn building on May 13.

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  • Health

New studies show what's at stake if Medicaid is scaled back

Researchers studied the health care program's effect on the health of millions of Americans and found tens of thousands of lives were saved.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Leslie Walker
Screenshot from Peter Biello interview with Charlie Bailey

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As Georgia Democratic Party leader, Charlie Bailey pledges to focus on 'foundational' issues

The new leader of Georgia's Democratic Party, Charlie Bailey, aims to win elections by focusing on "foundational" issues. He spoke with GPB's Peter Biello.

May 07, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
 Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones, an Augusta Democrat, said he believes bipartisan interest in a new Medicaid expansion proposal could propel it to the governor’s desk this year. Republican co-sponsors say they at least want an open debate. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Handful of rural Georgia Republicans join with Dems to give full Medicaid expansion another go

A handful of Senate Republicans from rural Georgia have signed onto a new bipartisan attempt to fully expand Medicaid through a conservative-friendly option that gained traction last year after a decade of firm GOP resistance.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, left, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, right, sign healthcare waivers at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Oct. 15, 2020. Pathways to Coverage launched last July and is the only Medicaid plan in the country that requires beneficiaries to work or engage in other activities to get coverage. As of June, it had about 4,300 members.

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  • Health

Georgia’s work requirement slows processing of applications for Medicaid, food stamps

Georgia’s public benefits system has been plagued by problems for years. But processing times have worsened since July 2023, when Georgia launched the nation’s only active Medicaid work requirement program.

December 06, 2024
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  • Andy Miller ,
  • Renuka Rayasam ,
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Woman holds pink ribbon to her chest

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  • Health

Breast cancer diagnoses rise among women under 50 as Georgia's mammography rate falls to 70%

Within the United States, overall, breast cancer death rates have continuously declined by 44% from 1989 to 2022, which the American Cancer Society translates to about 518,000 fewer breast cancers.

 

October 04, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Wide Shot of Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia

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  • Health Care

As Georgia's uninsured rate remains higher than national average, stakeholders discuss policy

According to the latest census, 1.2 million people under 65 years old in Georgia do not have health insurance. 

September 12, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kody Kinsley discusses the impact of Medicaid expansion on prescriptions during a news conference at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday, July 12, 2024. When the state expanded access to Medicaid in December,  more than 500,000 residents gained access to health coverage.

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  • Health

Amid Medicaid's 'unwinding,' many states work to expand health care access

States have been culling their Medicaid rolls since pandemic coverage protections expired last year. But more than a dozen states have also expanded access for lower-income people, including children.

August 16, 2024
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  • Phil Galewitz
 A spokesperson for Gov. Brian Kemp said the state “will continue to pursue the necessary time to demonstrate the program’s viability by working with CMS.” Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder (file photo)

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  • Politics

Federal judge rejects Georgia’s request to extend length of time for state’s limited Medicaid plan

A federal judge has denied the state’s end-around attempt to gain back time lost during the Biden administration’s unsuccessful bid to block the governor’s limited Medicaid expansion program.

July 17, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
A coalition of advocates call for full Medicaid expansion in Mississippi at a rally at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The gathering drew supporters from throughout the state representing religious, social and human service organizations, medical professionals and legislators.

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  • Health

Here's what's holding back Medicaid expansion in Mississippi and other Southern states

More than a million people could get health care if these states would pass laws expanding Medicaid. Most residents want the expansion but entrenched politics stands in the way.

May 17, 2024
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  • Drew Hawkins
Gov. Brian Kemp

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  • Politics

Kemp signs bill to ease limit on new health care facilities, restates opposition to Medicaid expansion

The governor signed into law a high-profile health care measure Friday that is seen as a potential pathway to passing full Medicaid expansion next year — but not before casting fresh doubts on whether another year will change his mind.  

April 22, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
Sen. Bill Cowsert (center) cast the decisive vote Thursday to keep a Medicaid expansion proposal from advancing out of his committee. Cordele Republican Sen. Carden Summers (left) was one of two Republican senators who voted for the bill.

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  • Health Care

Medicaid expansion chances dim again this year as key health care proposal passes without it

A late proposal to fully expand Medicaid received a surprise hearing in a Senate committee Thursday but was narrowly defeated, with the chairman who allowed the hearing casting the decisive vote to shelve it.

March 22, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
New Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns poses for a portrait at the Georgia State Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Atlanta.

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  • News

Georgia House leaders signal Medicaid expansion is off the table in 2024

A bill introduced Tuesday by a top lieutenant to Republican House Speaker Jon Burns proposes to create a Comprehensive Health Care Commission. That could lead to more health coverage in the future, but not this year.

February 21, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Gov. Brian Kemp with doctors from the Medical Center at Atrium Health in Macon in 2020.

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  • Health Care

Lawsuit over Kemp’s Medicaid program enters uncharted legal waters

The lawsuit suggests that Pathways to Coverage should get a pass to operate longer than its intended end date next September. But an error in Georgia’s approach makes that complicated.

February 06, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock talks to reporters at the state Capitol Tuesday.

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  • News

Will Georgia Republicans embrace full Medicaid expansion by another name?

Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns said earlier this month a "private option” was being studied. Many Republicans have voiced support for an Arkansas-style model that uses federal funds to purchase private plans on the federal marketplace.

January 31, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
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  • Health Care

What Georgia lawmakers are saying about Medicaid expansion so far

State lawmakers on both sides of the aisle responsible for making decisions around health care policy seem to agree that Medicaid, and whether or not the state will choose to expand it, will be a major issue this legislative session.

January 12, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
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