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How to Improve Health and Lower Health Care Costs in Georgia

WEBGeorgia could actively support, via the state employee health plan, a move from the standard co-payment model of drug purchasing to an after-pay model. In this model, the …

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How Georgia is ‘Amazon-izing’ Healthcare and Fixing What’s …

WEBWhile Republicans nationally struggle to agree on solutions in healthcare and Democrats push for more government control, Georgia is taking a major step forward in altering key …

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Health Care: A Road Map to Innovation

WEBBy Ross Mason. The United States spent $2.4 trillion on health care in 2011. If that represented a country, it would be the world’s sixth-largest economy. Health care …

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Checking Up On Health: May 10, 2021

WEBAccording to 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation statistics, about 25% of Georgia’s hospitals were government owned, about 59% were nonprofit and about 16% …

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Addressing Georgia’s Healthcare Shortage

WEBA recent report by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation noted that 26 states already allow full practice authority for nurse practitioners in particular. North Dakota and …

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Georgia’s CON laws reduce access to healthcare

WEBThe Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s recently-published study of CON laws assesses the effect on availability of care. Access to healthcare is the most-studied …

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A Solution for Georgia’s Rural Healthcare Shortage

WEBIn a new study, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation proposes that the state allow physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses, including nurse …

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Georgia Must Correct Dental Care Disparities

WEBThe study also found that there are more than 500,000 children in Georgia whose parents will probably forgo preventive dental care for their children because of lack of financial …

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At a Crossroads, Kaiser Permanente Georgia Changed Course

WEBMedicare & Medicaid 27,122 11%. Individuals & Families 19,123 8%. By Mike Klein. Mike Klein, Editor, Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Kaiser Permanente in Georgia found …

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Three Policies to Ease Georgia’s Healthcare Staffing Crisis

WEBThree policy reforms could help add to the ranks of Georgia nurses. Expand loan forgiveness programs. The state already offers service-cancelable loan forgiveness to …

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Georgia Public Policy Foundation

WEBThe Georgia Public Service Commission ruled in favor of the railroad in an eminent domain case in Hancock County. From education to healthcare to taxes, Guide To The Issues …

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Fixing the $1 Billion Federal Unfunded Heath Care Mandate

WEBUnder current law, the federal government has committed to increase funding by $3 billion to $4 billion if Georgia expands its Medicaid program. The problem with this approach is …

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Electronic Medical Records Keep Natural Disasters From Turning …

WEBStudies show that this nation trails a number of other countries in the use of electronic medical record systems. By Albert Woodard. Hurricane Sandy is only the most recent …

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“Mental Health is a Huge Issue” in Georgia Justice Strategies

WEBBy the numbers, the state adult corrections system has some 57,500 inmates and 162,600 on felony probation. The budget is about $1.1 billion per year to support adult …

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