Issue Position: Healthcare

Issue Position

Regulate anticompetitive behavior that increases healthcare spending: address anticompetitive behavior by certain healthcare providers and payers, through: reducing "Certificates of Need," expanding the scope of nurses and other healthcare providers, and ensuring that government contracts with providers/insurers that engage in consumer-oriented behavior (e.g., enforcing spending targets, offering bundling of services, fostering coordinated care for any given patient[3], simplifying administrative systems). Expand market supply of healthcare commodities, inc. prescription drugs through importation.

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Provide coverage for people without insurance: expand Medicaid eligibility to uninsured Georgians -- about 13% of our state's population -- to the maximum extent under federal Affordable Care Act.[4] Concurrently, the state should work towards reimbursing 100% of care provided, to incentivize service provision to all.

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Protect women and children's health: repeal fetal "heartbeat" law, which outlaws the freedom of women to make inherently personal decisions about body and the bounds of life. Instead, the state should focus on increased funding and programming for maternal and child health.

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