Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday voiced his support for cuts to Medicaid in a controversial Senate health care bill that experts said would leave Georgia lawmakers with a difficult choice about whether to spend more taxpayer money on health care, or reduce the 1.7 million Georgians who rely on the program.
“There’s a lot of complaint now about decreasing those on the Medicaid rolls,” Deal told WABE, “I quite honestly think that needs to be done, because those states that expanded their Medicaid rolls have included people that really are able to work.”
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