Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Providing Healthcare Coverage for Those in Need

ACTION:

Expand Medicaid.

Georgia is one of just ten states that hasn’t fully expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. This isn’t responsible government—it’s dangerous decision making.

Georgia needs to stand by its workers who can’t afford coverage or aren’t provided coverage by their employer. If we are to be a place where those at the bottom have a chance to get ahead, it’s time to join the 40 other states that have expanded Medicaid. In doing so, Georgia would receive enhanced federal funding and insure hundreds of thousands more people.

Protecting Expectant Mothers

ACTION:

Increase the transparency of Georgia’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

Georgia excels at many things, but maternal health is not one of them. Georgia has the second highest maternal mortality rate of any state in the US. Medicaid cuts, limited telehealth options and broadband deserts, and closures of rural hospitals have led to increases in maternal deaths.

For Black mothers, the situation is critical. Black women make up more than half of Georgia’s maternal deaths—dying at a rate twice that of white women.

Last year, Georgia relaunched its Maternal Mortality Review Committee to address this crisis, but the legislature won’t release any information regarding who serves on the committee or the committee’s findings. We need transparency on this issue. Expectant mothers deserve to know who is working to make it safer to have a baby in Georgia.