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Closing the Healthcare Coverage Gap in Georgia
Act Now – Georgia Pathways Renewal Application Public Comment Deadline Extended by DCH
March 7, 2025 Contact: Anna Britt Anna@waxmanstrategies.com New Opportunity for Public Comment on Georgia Pathways® Renewal Application State Adds a Third Public Hearing and Extends Electronic Public Comment Submission Deadline to March 19, 2025 Natalie...
2025 BRIDGE Georgia Healthcare Influencer Day at the Georgia State Capitol
Tell your state leaders, it’s time to close the healthcare coverage gap! The BRIDGE Georgia healthcare coalition will host the 2025 Annual Influencer Day at the State Capitol. Join us as we all work together to close Georgia’s healthcare coverage gap! We’re connecting...
BRIDGE Georgia Statement on Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage Commission’s First-year Report
Coalition Applauds CHCC’s Initial Steps and Looks Forward to Robust Exploration of Medicaid Expansion Natalie Crawford, Chair of BRIDGE Georgia and Founder & Executive Director of Georgia First, released the following statement today: This week, the Comprehensive...
Opinion: Georgia’s Small Businesses Need Healthcare Coverage
Thelma Johnson has spent 25 years helping businesses thrive with Albany Community Together. But increasingly, she sees a lack of affordable health care as a barrier to small businesses success.
Opinion: Support Georgia vets by closing the coverage gap
Georgia veteran and advocate Andrew Davenport explains how closing the coverage gap would help veterans who struggle to access benefits when they return from service.
Opinion: Closing the health care coverage gap would boost Georgia’s economy
New research finds that closing the coverage gap would spur more than 51,000 new jobs.
Statement Regarding FY2025 Budget
We are pleased that Governor Kemp signed into law $200,000 for a commission to study the need for closing the health care coverage gap in Georgia.
Opinion: Georgians can’t wait. Close health care coverage gap now
Closing the gap would help hardworking farmers, gig workers, parents and more than 30,000 veterans and their spouses who contribute to our economy and need affordable health care.
Bookman: As Georgia hands out big tax breaks, state leaders flunk Medicaid expansion math
There are no more lame excuses, no more what-ifs or just-supposes. There is only cruel obstinance.
Operating in the red: half of rural hospitals lose money; many cut services
Half of rural hospitals lost money in the past year, up from 43% the previous year.