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From Progress to Possibilities: What We’ve Built Together

Since 2008, Georgians for a Healthy Future has partnered with community members, organizations, and decision-makers to help make health care more affordable and accessible across the state.

In 2024, your support has helped us make meaningful progress:

Making Medicaid and Marketplace Coverage Work Better for Georgians

  • We worked with Voices for Georgia’s Children to streamline children’s Medicaid enrollment through Express Lane Eligibility
  • Our staff submitted detailed recommendations and helped mobilize public comments to improve the state’s Pathways to Coverage program
  • GHF’s Executive Director spoke at Georgia’s first legislative hearing focused on Medicaid expansion, offering expert testimony to help lawmakers understand the coverage gap
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Stripping Medicaid to Fund Tax Breaks? Medicaid Cuts Could Unravel Health Care in Georgia

Proposals to cut Medicaid to offset the cost of tax cuts for billionaires would gut the program and put millions at risk.

Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income children and some adults under 65, is essential to the physical and financial health of Georgia families and the state as a whole.  Medicaid covers almost 2 million low-income Georgians (18% of the state’s population), serves as a crucial lifeline for Georgia’s rural hospitals. It also accounted for nearly 20% of the state’s total budget in 2023. 

However, D.C. politicians are currently considering overhauls to Medicaid that would limit the program’s ability to serve Georgians, dramatically reduce its efficiency and effectiveness, and make it more expensive for the state to operate.  

Ultimately,  if Congress cuts Medicaid, Georgia families will pay the price.

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Jul 28, 2025
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