We are pleased that Governor Kemp signed into law $200,000 funding in the FY20205 budget for a commission to study the need for closing the health care coverage gap in Georgia. We hope members of the commission are appointed quickly, so they can conduct their work with the urgency this issue requires and pave the way for decisive action. Nearly half a million of our fellow Georgians—farmers, veterans, small business owners, and hourly, part-time and gig workers and their families—need coverage now.
New research finds that closing the coverage gap would spur more than 51,000 new jobs, most outside of healthcare, and put more money in the pockets of average Georgians—nearly $900 more per household. And closing the coverage would keep billions of our federal taxes in the state, helping struggling rural hospitals to survive and keep caring for their communities and hold down premiums for everyone.
We look forward to further legislative action on closing the coverage gap because it’s not just good health care policy, it’s also good economic policy.
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