Georgia medicaid expansion. Immediate medicaid expansion would save lives provide desperately needed coverage to georgias most vulnerable accelerate economic recovery and stabilize rural health systems. Youtube page for georgia medicaid. Current estimates are that the expansion would require georgia to find another 26 billion over five years.
State organizations elected officials state jobs. About 16700 a year for an individual and 28600 a year for a family of three. The bill authorized the georgia department of community health to submit a section 1115 waiver request that could include a medicaid expansion limited to coverage up to 100 fpl.
Georgias limited medicaid expansion plan is meant to work in tandem with its proposed section 1332 waiver called georgia access which was unveiled last week. Brian kemp r proposed a limited form of medicaid expansion that would offer coverage to some low income adults who work volunteer or go to job training 80 hours a month. As a result some states havent expanded their medicaid programs.
Monday to friday 0800 am. Kemps office said full expansion would cost georgia taxpayers more than 15 billion in the first five years. Georgia residents making less than 138 of the federal poverty line.
How can we help. All in eastern time zone. Adults in those states with incomes below 100 of the federal poverty level and who dont qualify for medicaid based on disability age or other factors fall into a gap.
Under that plan georgia would. If the state wants to receive the higher federal match the plan must cover people making less than 138 of the federal poverty line. Georgia enacted legislation in 2019 that allows the state to seek federal permission to expand medicaid but only to people earning up to 100 percent of the poverty level as opposed to 138 percent as called for in the acain november 2019 the state unveiled an 1115 waiver proposal that calls for partial medicaid expansion effective in july 2021 that would cover adults age 19 64 with.
Georgia is one of 14 states that have not fully expanded medicaid under the aca.