Topic: Health policy

March 27, 2026 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 27, 2026

As Georgia’s legislative session enters its final week, education policy is once again taking center stage under the Gold Dome. Lawmakers are racing to move key proposals across the finish […]
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.
March 29, 2024 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 29, 2024

This year, we saw positive movement on school choice, Certificate of Need reform and tax reform.
February 15, 2023 • Blog

Time to reform Certificate of Need laws

By Time to reform Certificate of Need laws
The debate over Georgia’s “certificate of need” laws has raged since the 1980s. Could this be the year lawmakers finally resolve it?
January 5, 2023 • Commentary

2023 session brings plenty of unknowns

By Chris Denson
There are a number of positive steps the legislature can take when it comes to tax, education, and healthcare policy.
November 29, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: November 25, 2022

It’s Friday! Friday’s Freshest: Georgians are faced with serious problems that affect their daily lives, their futures and their children’s futures. Some of them are urgent and require attention and […]
August 5, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 5, 2022

It’s Friday!  Quotes of note “My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.” -Bill Russell 1934-2022 “Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a […]
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 […]
May 20, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: May 20, 2022

It’s Friday!  Quotes of note “Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?… Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. […]
April 29, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: April 29, 2022

It’s Friday!  Quotes of note “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca “To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. […]
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 […]
April 8, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: April 08, 2022

It’s Friday!  Quotes of note“Personal independence is a virtue…but there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed, it must be developed […]
March 11, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 11, 2022

It’s Friday!  Quotes of note“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” -Jean-Paul Sartre “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” -Jonathan Swift “It is easier […]
October 29, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 29, 2021

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation modeled its annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum on the policy briefings of our sister think tank, the Texas Public Poli
October 15, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 15, 2021

From privatization to public-private partnerships to express toll lanes, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has never shied away from market-based proposals t
July 16, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 16, 2021

Housing affordability was one of the earliest policy challenges that drew the attention of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, as this 1992 commentary demonst
July 9, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 09, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane Experienced guide: Since 1996, the nonpartisan Georgia Public Policy Foundation has published a legislative agenda – a guide to the state’s policy challenges, with solutions aimed […]
June 25, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: June 25, 2021

It’s Friday!  Quote of Note Obamacare’s supporters talked a lot about illnesses contributing to more than half of all bankruptcies, which implied there should have been a sharp decrease in […]
April 30, 2021

Friday Facts: April 30, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane: Certificate-of-Need regulations, which govern competition in the healthcare industry, have long been discarded by the federal government. Since its founding in 1991, the Georgia Public Policy […]
April 9, 2021

Friday Facts: April 09, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane: Education options for Georgia’s children have been a primary focus of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation since its early days, as seen in this article from […]
April 5, 2021 • Blog

Checking Up On Health: April 5, 2021

Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. Thundering herd immunity: A single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna vaccine reduced the risk of […]
December 14, 2020 • Blog

Checking Up On Health: December 14, 2020

Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. COVID-19 vaccine arrives: Frontline healthcare workers in New York became the first to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 […]
November 3, 2020 • Blog

Checking Up On Health: November 2, 2020

Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. COVID-19 has affected everything this year, including the election. To avoid the long lines and waits […]
October 19, 2020 • Blog

Checking Up On Health: October 19, 2020

Checking Up On Health We’re back! After a three-year hiatus, “Checking Up On Health” is returning to the Foundation’s pages as part of Medical Monday. Look for our weekly healthcare- […]
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