The latest candidate to enter the Georgia Republican primary for governor is a health care executive whose company supplied hospital and nursing home workers during the Covid emergency under a state contract.
Billionaire Rick Jackson’s companies have been paid nearly a billion dollars by state agencies since fiscal 2020, according to a Healthbeat analysis of government records.
That includes about $710 million, starting in 2020, from the Department of Community Health, for health care staffing services. Much of that work ended by 2023, but Jackson Healthcare subsidiaries remain state contractors for other services.
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