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Handful of rural Georgia Republicans join with Dems to give full Medicaid expansion another go

A handful of Senate Republicans from rural Georgia have signed onto a new bipartisan attempt to fully expand Medicaid through a conservative-friendly option that gained traction last year after a decade of firm GOP resistance.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 5h

Georgia Democrats push for Medicaid expansion, health care access

According to data from the Department of Community Health presented Wednesday, 6,514 people are currently enrolled in the Pathways program out of 246,365 estimated to be eligible. If Georgia were to fully expand Medicaid, nearly 300,000 Georgians would gain health coverage, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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GOP senators sign on to Democrat-backed Medicaid expansion

Goodman, Hickman and Watson declined comment. Summers told 11Alive News that he has heard from constituents who can be served with Medicaid expansion and is motivated to protect rural hospitals, including Crisp Regional Hospital in his hometown of Cordele.

FOX 5 Atlanta on MSN13h

Georgia Congressman faces backlash over comments about school lunch programs

U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) is under fire for remarks he made regarding government assistance programs, specifically ...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution16h

Georgia Democrats are fracturing over Trump’s hardline immigration agenda

When President Donald Trump made a measure named for a slain Georgia nursing student the first law he signed in his second term, it crystallized a deepening Democratic divide over immigration that ...

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Georgia quits PACE over demand for new elections

By Ailis Halligan in Tbilisi Georgia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has announced ...

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Georgia senators introduce resolution condemning Jan. 6 pardons

The BriefU.S. Senators Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), joined by 45 other senators, introduced a resolution ...

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Portrait of retired state Rep. Calvin Smyre of Columbus now hangs in the Georgia Capitol

Retired state Rep. Calvin Smyre of Columbus made history as the longest-serving member of the Georgia House of ...

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'Campaign of terror': Georgia's escalating rights crackdown

Georgian rights activists have denounced what they say is a mounting campaign of repression being waged by the government, ...

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is considering a run for governor of Georgia

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta who ushered the city through COVID and the George Floyd uprising in May ...

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Georgia’s leader calls for Trump’s ‘strong America’ to push back Russia

Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s fifth president, is on a mission in Washington to make her country matter to President Trump ...

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Georgia's Political Instability Hurts EU, US Relations

Georgia's instability has hurt relations with Europe and slowed economic growth after the pro-Moscow ruling party won national elections. Political unrest has gripped the country since the ...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution5h

Georgia takes first step toward banning transgender athletes from competing against women

Georgia Republicans on Thursday took their first step toward banning transgender athletes from competing against women, a measure partly in response to the 2022 NCAA national swimming championships ...

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