Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than medical care for low-income people.
Mar 20 2024KFF Health News Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than medical care for low-income people.
The Pathways program is "fiscally foolish and anti-family," said Joan Alker, executive director and co-founder of Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families. She noted that full-time caregiving does not qualify someone for eligibility into the program. "A lot of taxpayer money has been wasted," she said, "and not on health care for people who need it.
"You're spending money, primarily here, to put people through an extra set of hoops before they get coverage," said Benjamin Sommers, a professor of health care economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. About 45% of Pathways applications were still waiting to be processed, based on the state's most recent monthly reports, said Leah Chan, director of health justice at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization that supports full Medicaid expansion.
In striking contrast, North Carolina has enrolled 380,000 beneficiaries in its Medicaid expansion as of March 1, according to that state's Department of Health and Human Services. North Carolina became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the ACA on Dec. 1, a move that has prompted fresh debate over expansion in a handful of other Southern holdout states.
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