$3 Billion Per Year is lost in Revenue by Refusing to Expand Medicaid ATLANTA — “Casey Cagle, Brian Kemp, and the GOP leadership’s refusal to expand Medicaid has resulted in a loss of more than $3 billion a year in federal funds, making Georgia an ‘at-risk’ patient”, said Democratic Party of Georgia’s Chairman, Dubose Porter. […]
...Release: Friday, October 13, 2017 Atlanta, GA – Democratic Party of Georgia First Vice Chair Nikema Williams issued the following statement on Donald Trump’s executive order to sabotage the health care marketplace. “With this executive order, Donald Trump and the Republican Party have made crystal clear the fact that they do not care about the […]
...Release: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 SHOT/CHASER: The Price is Wrong Edition […]
...Tom Price makes push for “junk insurance” Release: Monday, July 17, 2017 Contact: Michael Smith, Communications Director Atlanta, GA – “Nothing is more telling than Tom Price’s admission that the GOP’s endgame is to place […]
...Atlanta, GA – Today, Georgia’s Republican Congressional Delegation voted to strip health care from 24 million Americans to pay for a $600 billion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires. If Trumpcare becomes law, seniors will be saddled with higher premiums. Further, 4,316,000 Georgians with pre-existing conditions—including those with cancer, children with disabilities, and those who […]
...Release: Wednesday, January 10, 2017 Atlanta, GA – Today the Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, DuBose Porter, issued the following response […]
...Release: Friday, January 6, 2017 Atlanta, GA – Congressional Republicans are making moves in coordination with members of the incoming Trump Administration—including Trump’s pick to head HHS, Representative Tom Price—to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. As a surprise to no one, Republicans are short on details, but that hasn’t stopped Georgia Republicans from announcing the […]
...“We’re making progress. We’re going to keep working to get more people covered. I’m going to work as hard as I can to convince more governors and state legislatures to take advantage of the law, put politics aside, and expand Medicaid and cover their citizens. We’ve still got states out there that, for political reasons, […]
...Release: Thursday, June 25, 2015 Democratic Party of Georgia Statement on Affordable […]
...Georgia GOP Congressman Continue Boorish Partisanship with 67th Vote to Repeal the Affordable Care Act Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted—for the 67th time—to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Georgia’s GOP delegation to the House voted in favor of the measure. Nationwide, 9.5 million Americans have enrolled in the Health Insurance Marketplace, […]
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