Tag: healthcare

  • We’re still fighting for this

    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…

  • “…should a need or emergency arise.”

    Just six words.  Six words at the end of a press release from Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.  But, these six words reveal just how out of touch and mean-spirited our Georgia leadership has become.  Today Governor Deal announced a 3 part plan intended to help rural communities facing closing (and closed) hospitals.   The first…

  • Squires Calls for Hudgens to Retire

    Turns out she wasn’t too pleased with Ralph Hudgens’ comments that the Insurance Commissioner “can’t do squat about healthcare”. Full release below.

  • Maybe he should STFU

    President Barack Obama’s speech on healthcare last week obviously stirred up some strong feelings among Republicans, most notably from South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson who shouted, “You lie!” as Obama was making the accurate and truthful statement that undocumented immigrants would not receive healthcare benefits under the proposed plan.

  • Solution to the illegal alien problem in health care…

    One of the chief complaints of the bitter masses about health care is that it will insure illegal aliens with the American taxpayers paying the bill. Well, illegal aliens, just like most uninsured Americans, go to the ER when they get sick, or want to have an anchor baby. This is a huge problem for…

  • It’s Time to Stand Up

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s been a rough week for Democratic Congresspeople holding health care town halls Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Now progressive have started to recover from being taken off guard and are counter mobilizing . Here in Georgia we have a chance…