A new commission will soon begin examining the health care coverage needs of low-income and uninsured Georgians, kicking off an examination that is expected to delve into whether the state should rethink its long-held resistance to fully expanding Medicaid.
That panel was created earlier this year after some high-ranking Republicans showed a new openness toward expanding health care coverage through an alternative to traditional Medicaid expansion.
But a proposal to expand health care coverage using an Arkansas-style model, which purchases private insurance on the marketplace instead of adding more people to the state-run Medicaid program, was narrowly defeated after emerging late in the session.
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