Showdown on Medicaid expansion heats up as Georgia legislative session winds down

Democratic state lawmakers say they’ll continue fighting to expand Medicaid in Georgia after a majority Republican committee rejected the latest proposal for expansion with a week left in the General Assembly’s legislative session. 

The vote followed almost two hours of Senate committee debate on a House bill, the Peach Care Plus Act of 2024.

The measure would clear the way for Georgia to fully expand Medicaid to cover uninsured adults who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty line, $20,783 per year for a single person.