Issues
June 03, 2013 JHealth Care & Entitlements
The federal government will run the health insurance exchange, or marketplace, in Georgia and many other states. The goal is for individual consumers to be able to make informed choices comparing benefits and price. Andy Miller of Georgia Health News reports that seven health insurers have signed up to offer benefits plans in the online [...]
May 31, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions
It’s big. In fact, “massive” is a more apt description of the change overtaking education in Georgia. Some are hanging for dear life onto the “old school” ways, but technology is dragging them, kicking and screaming, into approaches that will forever disrupt the class. In just the month of May, even as schools closed for [...]
May 24, 2013 JHealth Care & Entitlements
Expanding Medicaid under the inflexible federal regulations currently in place would not be a good long-term decision for Georgia, but that doesn’t mean states shouldn’t propose a more effective alternative. But the question should not be limited to whether to expand a specific program such as Medicaid it should be how to best provide access [...]
May 24, 2013 JTaxes
When I became a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, I looked forward to the opportunity to relay Georgians’ questions and concerns about this Administration’s dangerous activities. What I did not anticipate was how many scandals and serious missteps by the Administration would demand the Committee’s immediate attention in the first few [...]
May 24, 2013 JHealth Care & Entitlements
Quite often, when a law is put into practice, legal loopholes can result in outcomes that are the opposite of the law’s desired goals. In this case, it looks like a law to create better insurance options for low income workers, might be leaving some with cut-rate insurance instead. The Wall Street Journal explains: Benefits [...]