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ICYMI: A Medicaid ‘experiment.’ Not an expansion
The financial state of rural health care in Georgia pretty much guaranteed this. From the AJC's Greg Bluestein and Misty Williams below, and Lori Geary of Channel 2 Action News above:
The outlines of the plan are unclear. State health officials say they will seek permission from the feds to "experiment" with Medicaid in a way that would shore up rural and safety net hospitals. But there are no plans to expand Medicaid, they said.
Dozens of rural hospitals face funding shortfalls so acute that they threaten access to care for tens of thousands of Georgians across the state.
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
