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February 27, 2025 • Commentary

How do we get more Georgia grown physicians?

By Chris Denson

According to the Georgia Board for Healthcare Workforce, less than a third of Georgia’s 2024 medical school graduates chose to do their residency in Georgia.

February 6, 2025 • Commentary

Tort reform and what it means for cost and access in Georgia healthcare

By Chris Denson

Legislators will soon begin hearings for Gov. Brian Kemp’s much publicized attempt to reform Georgia’s legal system.

February 5, 2025 • Blog

The worst time for Georgia to expand Medicaid

By Kyle Wingfield

Georgia’s policymakers would be wiser to put their energies into making our market for healthcare work even better.

October 10, 2024 • Commentary

How do we get physicians and providers in underserved areas?

By Chris Denson

Since it takes years to educate and train a physician, what steps can policymakers take to try and address this physician shortage?

October 3, 2024 • Commentary

Why a guide to the issues?

By Kyle Wingfield

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has released its 2024 “Guide to the Issues.”

July 11, 2024 • Commentary

How do we provide the best health coverage for Georgians?

By Chris Denson

Choice and competition in the health insurance market are not only good for consumers, but providers as well.

July 11, 2024 • Commentary

Examining Georgia’s health insurance marketplace

By Gregg Conley

When Gov. Brian Kemp was sworn into office on January 14, 2019, the health insurance landscape in Georgia was dire.

June 6, 2024 • Commentary

As competition decreases, the cost of healthcare rises

By Chris Denson

In Georgia, the four largest health systems currently account for 51.6% of hospital beds available statewide.

May 9, 2024 • Commentary

What does the FTC’s ban on non compete clauses mean for healthcare?

By Jackson Hammond

On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission voted to approve a new final rule banning most non compete agreements across the entire economy.

March 20, 2024 • Commentary

Existing service providers are always the loudest voices against change

By Kyle Wingfield

It’s striking how much our debates over two of Georgia’s most important structural challenges are really the same argument with different jargon.

March 14, 2024 • Commentary

The state of CON repeal in Georgia

By Chris Denson

With only five legislative days remaining in the 2024 General Assembly, how are things looking for the effort to reduce Certificate of Need laws in Georgia?

March 7, 2024 • Commentary

2024 legislative session enters final stretch

By Chris Denson

With Crossover Day now in the rearview and candidate qualifying ending this week, what will the final weeks of this session hold?

January 10, 2024 • Blog

This “could” be a big legislative session

By Kyle Wingfield

While every session of the General Assembly – like every election – is billed as consequential, this time the hype could be right.

January 4, 2024 • Commentary

What will be the biggest issues during the 2024 legislative session?

By Chris Denson

For the first time since 2021, Georgia lawmakers won’t rush to gavel out on their first day and travel to the national championship game.

December 27, 2023 • Blog

11 biggest stories of 2023

By Brett Kittredge

As we prepare to welcome in a new year, here is a review of our most read and most shared stories of 2023.

December 14, 2023 • Commentary

Clarity in the need to repeal Certificate of Need laws

By Kyle Wingfield

The Senate directive is short and sweet: “the Study Committee recommends that Georgia’s CON laws should be repealed in their entirety.”

December 7, 2023 • Commentary

Will Medicaid expansion make its way to Georgia?

By Chris Denson

Georgia policymakers may be asked to consider a potential expansion of the state Medicaid program using Arkansas as the model. But should they?

December 7, 2023 • Blog

Senate Study Committee recommends full CON repeal

By Athan Clark

The committees findings highlight how the CON process obstructs advancements in healthcare and creates anti-competitive environments.

November 2, 2023 • Blog

Not just hospitals: Georgia CON laws also limit medical technologies

By Chris Butler

Certificate of Need laws prevent healthcare providers from adding medical equipment without first receiving permission from the state.

November 1, 2023 • Blog

Original opponents of Georgia Pathways continue to oppose Georgia Pathways

By Kyle Wingfield

Georgia Pathways is intended to improve on the mediocrity of Medicaid.

October 26, 2023 • Blog

11 spooky policy ideas to avoid

By Brett Kittredge

Here are 11 spooky policy ideas we should all run from like a man in a mask is chasing us.

September 28, 2023 • Commentary

Birth center blocked by CON laws

By Chris Denson

In 2021, the Augusta Birth Center applied to become the first freestanding birth center in Richmond County.

September 7, 2023 • Blog

Senate Study Committee holds meeting on Rural Personnel Recruitment

By J. Thomas Perdue

Allowing healthcare providers to practice to the full extent of their education and training was recommended.

July 20, 2023 • Commentary

Popular short-term health plans should be preserved

By Brian Blase

Short-term plans are not subject to Obamacare rules and are thus much more affordable and flexible for families.

July 13, 2023 • Commentary

House holds CON reform hearings

By Chris Denson

The Georgia House Study Committee on Certificate of Need Modernization held its first hearing this week in Atlanta.

June 21, 2023 • Commentary

States can begin verifying Medicaid eligibility for first time in 3 years

By Kyle Wingfield

Millions of people have been receiving a taxpayer-funded benefit for which they no longer qualify.

June 20, 2023 • Blog

EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones says new study committees will steer state’s future

By Chris Butler

Lt. Gov. Burt Jones talks with us about the 2023 legislative session and his future legislative goals.

June 14, 2023 • Blog

Senate holds first Certificate of Need study committee meeting

By Brett Kittredge

This week, the Georgia Senate held its first meeting for the study committee on Certificate of Need reform.

June 7, 2023 • Commentary

Why do we have so few providers in healthcare?

By Why do we have so few providers in healthcare?

As with too many other topics, the debate on healthcare access tends to focus on symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem.

June 5, 2023 • Blog

Georgia’s CON pits the powerful against rural healthcare needs

By Chris Butler

“We want folks here to have a choice, but without competition there is no incentive to be any better.”