A commission created in 2024 by Gov. Brian Kemp and state lawmakers to evaluate health care challenges facing low-income Georgians has not met this year, despite the drastic changes debated in Washington that culminated earlier this month with the passage of massive health care spending cuts in President Trump’s historic tax-and-spending bill.
Yet the chair of the panel formally known as the Comprehensive Commission on Health Care is set to release a report next week that multiple commission members said reflects the lack of urgency over what many health-care advocates see as a disastrous year ahead for public health as the spending cuts take effect.
The commission was created to discuss, among other problems, the state’s high rate of uninsured adults, the financial threats to rural hospitals and the growing costs of health care. The commissioners, who are all volunteers, were appointed by Republican and Democratic state House and Senate leaders. The panel’s chair, Caylee Noggle, was appointed by Kemp.
During the year, Noggle repeatedly told members of the commission, which includes some of the state’s top health care leaders, practitioners and policy researchers, that the “complexity” of the congressional discussions that culminated in slashing federal safety-net benefits was why she decided not to convene the state group, according to two members of the commission and an email reviewed by The Current.
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