{"id":9938,"date":"2024-07-21T18:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2024-07-21T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:24:05","slug":"biden-and-georgia-are-waging-a-fight-over-medicaid-and-the-future-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Georgia Are Waging a Fight Over Medicaid and the Future of Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans.<\/p>\n

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The Affordable Care Act was once a potent electoral issue that could swing campaigns with its more familiar moniker, Obamacare. But the 2010 health law did not factor into last week\u2019s Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n

The Republican National Committee\u2019s platform made only vague reference to a Trump health plan, saying that the party will \u201cincrease transparency, promote choice and competition, and expand access to new affordable health care.\u201d Former President Donald J. Trump, who said last year<\/a> he was \u201cseriously looking at alternatives\u201d to Obamacare, made little reference to health policy in his speech on Thursday accepting the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

The fight over Obamacare has instead shifted more to state capitals, in part because a provision of the law allows states \u2014 which jointly finance Medicaid with the federal government \u2014 to expand their programs to cover more adults.<\/p>\n

No state represents the continuing divisions over the Affordable Care Act\u2019s place in the safety net more than Georgia, one of the last 10 holdouts that have refused to take up Medicaid expansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last July, Georgia officials implemented a stricter alternative to Medicaid expansion, known as Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The new program required participants to show that they were working, enrolled in college or doing community service for at least 80 hours each month \u2014 activities that Republican state lawmakers said would encourage a spirit of accountability among recipients of publicly subsidized health benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans.The Affordable Care Act was once a potent electoral issue that could swing campaigns with its more familiar moniker, Obamacare. But the 2010 health law did not factor into last week\u2019s Republican National Convention.The Republican National Committee\u2019s platform made only vague reference to a Trump health plan, saying that the party will \u201cincrease transparency, promote choice and competition, and expand access to new affordable health care.\u201d Former President Donald J. Trump, who said last year he was \u201cseriously looking at alternatives\u201d to Obamacare, made little reference to health policy in his speech on Thursday accepting the Republican nomination.The fight over Obamacare has instead shifted more to state capitals, in part because a provision of the law allows states \u2014 which jointly finance Medicaid with the federal government \u2014 to expand their programs to cover more adults.No state represents the continuing divisions over the Affordable Care Act\u2019s place in the safety net more than Georgia, one of the last 10 holdouts that have refused to take up Medicaid expansion.Last July, Georgia officials implemented a stricter alternative to Medicaid expansion, known as Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The new program required participants to show that they were working, enrolled in college or doing community service for at least 80 hours each month \u2014 activities that Republican state lawmakers said would encourage a spirit of accountability among recipients of publicly subsidized health benefits.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9940,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}