Health care policy has played a big role in the campaign for Georgia’s next governor. One issue that keeps coming up in that conversation? Medicaid expansion.
Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams has said the first thing she would do as governor is expand Medicaid. That’s the decision each state can make to give more low-income people access to health care. States receive federal funding for it, though they, too, have to pay into the program.
“And you’ll hear me talk about this ad nauseam because it’s the only answer to Georgia’s challenges,” Abrams said at a health care policy press conference Monday. “We have an uncompensated care rate of $1.7 billion.”
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