The fight in Georgia over Medicaid expansion (SB106) is a reminder that health care issues dominated the 2018 midterms and powered the massive blue wave that gave Democrats 40 seats in the House of Representatives – 17 more than was needed for a majority.
As the Georgia Senate gets ready to consider Governor Kemp’s “Patients First Act” (SB106), essentially an application for Medicaid waivers that would allow him to customize Georgia’s approach to healthcare expansion, it is worth remembering the context for this discussion – Republican reaction to the Affordable Care Act passed by President Obama.
Protect Our Care, the national coalition who is “leading the fight to protect health care for millions of Americans, preserving and improving the Affordable Care Act and organizing the opposition to the Republican health care agenda” launched a Georgia operation in February.
The group has released a comprehensive agenda for congressional action: The Health Care Congress: Cost, Coverage, Consumer Protections, which outlines the struggle that has defined the national and Georgia Republican party for almost a decade.
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