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We believe that effective healthcare policy should be transparent, equitable and patient-based.
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January 25, 2023 • Commentary
Taxpayer-funded benefits should be for those that are supposed to receive them
Why are some likely to lose Medicaid coverage?
December 12, 2022 • Blog
Expanding healthcare access. Lowering costs for consumers.
Healthcare policy should be transparent, equitable and patient-based.
November 4, 2022 • Commentary
Closure for a Hospital That Didn’t Have to Close
Why the financial statements of Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center don’t reflect a hospital that needed to cease operations.
October 20, 2022 • Commentary
Facts-Based Principles and Practical Recommendations: Guide to the Issues 2022
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation is excited to announce the release of the latest edition of Guide to the Issues!
October 12, 2022 • Commentary
Addressing Georgia’s Healthcare Shortage
Several Georgia counties and communities do not have adequate access to healthcare services. Full practice authority for practitioners would address this trend.
October 7, 2022 • Pacific Legal Foundation
Georgia Birth Center Director Fights Crony Protectionism to Help Expectant Mothers
Georgia mothers lack alternatives when the state grants hospitals “competitor’s veto” power over birth centers.
September 16, 2022 • Commentary
A Solution for Georgia’s Rural Healthcare Shortage
Full practice authority for nurse practitioners and physician assistants improves healthcare access, outcomes and cost.
September 15, 2022 • Blog
Georgia’s Obsolete CON
Certificate of Need is a statutory relic. Those days are gone, but CON is still with us.
August 31, 2022 • Blog
A Medicaid Plan that Works for Georgia
We may finally get to see how work requirements fit with Medicaid. We can expect good things.
August 26, 2022 • Commentary
A Path Forward for Georgia Pathways Medicaid Waiver
U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood’s 65-page ruling is not only necessary at this juncture, but enlightening.
August 19, 2022 • Press Release
Georgia Public Policy Foundation Applauds Decision to Protect Georgia’s Medicaid Waiver
“This waiver was a well-considered effort to offer a path to health coverage for low-income Georgians,” said President and CEO Kyle Wingfield.
August 17, 2022 • Blog
‘Defend Our Hospitals’ by Dismantling CON
Certificate of Need harms Georgians when it’s used by outside interests, but also when it’s used by other Georgia hospitals.
August 17, 2022 • Blog
Expanding Medicaid Not A Cure-All
Simply saying “expand Medicaid” doesn’t solve the problems many patients and providers in Georgia face.
August 4, 2022 • Center for the American Experiment
CMS Relies on Flawed Legal and Economic Analyses to Suspend Georgia’s State Innovation Waiver
There is no legal basis for the Biden administration to demand a corrective action plan for a waiver that has not yet been implemented.
August 1, 2022 • Blog
Georgia Access Model Still Lacks Necessary Federal Support
Georgia has presented a strong argument why the Biden administration lacks the basis to deny the ACA waiver and are proceeding accordingly.
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