September 4, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 4, 2026
Labor Day is the one holiday built entirely around work. Americans decided a long time ago that showing up and doing a job deserves recognition.
Topic: Grady Memorial Hospital
May 27, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 27, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note“Duty, honor, country. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur […]
April 22, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 22, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If […]
June 4, 2021
Friday Facts: June 04, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane A legacy of bureaucracy: The obfuscation in data from the Georgia Department of Education is a longstanding problem, as shown in this 1996 letter from the […]
November 8, 2019
Friday Facts: November 8, 2019
It’s Friday! Events November 15: It’s just one week away! The 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum comes to the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly on Friday, November 15. Five issues. Five think […]
September 27, 2019
Friday Facts: September 27, 2019
It’s Friday! Events November 15: The agenda is online for the 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, which features nearly two dozen policy experts and leaders on issues affecting Georgia: Education, […]
May 30, 2019 • Press Release
2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum Speaker Biographies
Judge Steven C. Teske, Morning Keynote Speaker Judge Steven C. Teske is the Chief Judge of the Juvenile Court of the Clayton Judicial Circuit. He was appointed juvenile court judge […]
September 4, 2018
2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum Agenda
The 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum is slated for Friday, September 7, 2018 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. PDF Version: Agenda 2018 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum AGENDA 7:30-8:00 Breakfast Buffet […]
August 17, 2018
2018 Forum Focuses on Georgia’s Imminent Challenges
Policy experts take on education, health care, criminal justice and pensions. By Benita M. Dodd Four issues; four times as many experts. In a nutshell, that’s the 2018 Georgia Legislative […]
March 17, 2017
How States Can Break the Health Care Logjam
Federal waivers could help ease the burden on low-income Georgians and the hospitals that treat them. By Kelly McCutchen In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, January 22 a tornado, one of […]
January 18, 2017
Fixing the $1 Billion Federal Unfunded Heath Care Mandate
By Kelly McCutchen There is no question Georgia’s rural hospitals are struggling. The great majority of these hospitals are losing money every year and several have been forced to close. Their struggles were […]
May 15, 2015
Friday Facts: May 15, 2015
It’s Friday! Events June 23-25: The Institute for HealthCare Consumerism’s Sixth Annual IHC Forum & Expo in Atlanta highlights the innovations and changes in health and benefits. Register by May […]
April 28, 2015
Checking Up On Health: April 28, 2015
May is Asthma Awareness Month; government isn’t helping. Also, should airlines ban ill customers? Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd May is Asthma Awareness Month. […]
March 31, 2015
Checking Up On Health: March 31, 2015
Did you know that nine out of 10 ER docs admit to ordering unnecessary tests? Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Buyer beware: A news article […]
May 27, 2014
Checking Up On Health: May 27, 2014
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd According to protocol: How will already-busy emergency departments handle the extra business coming their way under ObamaCare, physician Peter Ubel […]
April 24, 2014
Is State Performance Index Inadequate for Alternative Schools?
This week a new state report tried to explain which Georgia schools and districts are the best and worst performers. But for Provost Academy Georgia a very low score does […]
November 8, 2013
Making the Right Call on Medicaid, Health Care Reform
States are forced to choose the status quo or expanding a nearly 50-year-old Medicaid program with a history of unsustainable finances and questionable quality. By Kelly McCutchen Georgia Governor Nathan […]
July 16, 2013
Checking Up On Health: July 16, 2013
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Much ado about nothing: A new paper identifies five overused medical treatments and offers proposals to prevent their overuse, […]
April 30, 2013
Checking Up On Health: April 30, 2013
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Hospital care spending: Georgia is second only to Utah in a ranking of the states with the lowest hospital care […]
March 27, 2013
What Farmers Can Teach Physicians
By Dr. Jeffrey Grossman In 1900, one-third of the American labor force was committed to agricultural production. In 1950, food consumed at home was 22 percent of a household’s […]
October 9, 2012
Checking Up On Health
Advances in science; spin on the health care law and fraud in government health programs. Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Bed tax,’ again: Andy Miller of Georgia […]
July 17, 2012
Checking Up On Health
By Benita Dodd Health Policy Briefs: July 17, 2012 – What’s in a name? Another regulatory slugfest: The Generic Pharmaceutical Association is urging the Federal Drug Administration to apply the same […]
February 4, 2011
Home Remedies for What Ails Health Care
By Benita M. Dodd In a week in which the crafters of the new federal health care law probably needed trauma care, two of Georgia’s best known physicians were attending […]
February 3, 2011
Commentary: Home Remedies for What Ails Health Care
Home Remedies for What Ails Health Care By Benita M. Dodd In a week in which the crafters of the new federal health care law probably needed trauma care, two […]
August 17, 2007
A Prescription for Grady
By Bill Loughrey Grady Memorial Hospital is a vital community asset used by residents throughout metropolitan Atlanta, a safety-net hospital for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Georgians that admits tens […]