However, due to the politics of health care coverage in our country, Medicaid nonexpansion states like Georgia have left some 4.4 million Americans in the coverage gap.
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Medicaid expansion has been essential for us to deliver equal and equitable care across the citizens of our Commonwealth.
We have had 10 hospitals in Georgia close in 10 years because of our refusal to expand Medicaid.
COVID-19 has put a strain on all of us, and it has been particularly challenging to our health care systems.
Imagine having Medicare in 38 States or Social Security in just 38 states.
If he`s concerned about dark money, he should protect -- he should support the Freedom to Vote Act.
It`s a lie. It`s a lie told because it sounds so seductively like the truth that we don`t investigate further.
This is a slow-moving but very aggressive and relentless attempt to undermine our democracy using our very laws against us.
What the bill provides for is a uniform system of minimum standards so that regardless of where you live in the United States, your freedom to vote is protected.
After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed. There is no doubt there were many alarming issues with how the election was handled. And those problems…
I think you are being generous when you say that we have many, many bridges to cross before we get there. We have watched state after state put in place the subversion of our elections.
And you`re not a domestic terrorist. If you went to the Capitol on January 6 supporting President Trump and hearing about election integrity, and not wanting to see fraud in our election systems, that doesn`t make you a domestic terrorist…
Every legal vote must be counted, and those that are illegal must be set aside.
We need less Federal involvement in our elections, not more.
Building trust starts with taking steps to verify that all votes are legal and cast by eligible voters.
My friends on the other side of the aisle claim that our democracy is strengthened when close elections are subjected to forensic audit by outside entities.
We have got to take this whole issue of election integrity seriously.
Improvements in the social insurance system can help to address historical inequities in household resources.