At a virtual campaign kickoff this month, an attendee asked gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams what separates her healthcare plan from Gov. Brian Kemp’s.
“We live in an industrialized, modern nation, and no one should die from a preventative disease,” Abrams said. “And the fact that we are refusing to help people, not because we can’t, but because he won’t, is the real difference.”
Abrams is referring to Medicaid expansion, a top priority when she ran for governor in 2018 and now a centerpiece of her campaign as she makes a second bid.
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