The state has awarded sole control of these services to a new provider, and many families are feeling uncertain about what comes next.

About 71 million adults are enrolled in Medicaid now. And most of them — around 92% — are working, caregiving, attending school or disabled. Earlier estimates of the budget bill from the Congressional ...

As one reader writes, the "old trope of work-or-volunteer remedies" recalls the “welfare queen” stereotype of 40 years ago, ...

Quincy St. ATLANTA – Georgia’s experiment with a work requirement for Medicaid offers a test of a similar mandate Republicans in Congress want to implement nationally, and advocates say the ...

Healthcare and other quality of life issues expected to be top issues for Democrat candidates running for governor of Georgia ...

ExploreHe became the face of Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement ... Republican leaders have refused to do so, citing concern about the stability of federal funding. That has meant people ...

West noted that about 1.6 million Georgians rely on federally funded SNAP to get food, and concerns were growing ... wonders what the future of Medicaid could be in Georgia. Griggs is the director ...

State Rep. Derrick Jackson joins Georgia’s 2026 governor race, focusing on Medicaid expansion, rural health care, and raising ...

Congress is working to hash out a spending bill. But healthcare could see cuts which could hit Georgia families hard. Uncle Sam’s biggest creditor faces a fiscal crisis ‘worse than Greece ...

Georgia is currently the only state with a Medicaid work requirement. It’s part of the state’s partial Medicaid expansion; people who earn up to the federal poverty level can be eligible for ...

Take Georgia. In 2023, the state launched the country’s only active Medicaid work requirement ... This is not an abstract concern. Yale economist Zack Cooper has shown that a 1 percent increase ...