WATCH: GOP Senate Candidates Support Medicaid Cuts That Would Leave 750,000 Georgians Uninsured [11Alive]

June 12, 2025

New reporting from 11Alive highlights how the GOP U.S. Senate candidates are backing historic cuts to Medicaid moving through Congress that would “leave 750,000 Georgians uninsured.”

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11Alive:

  • Ron Jones, 11Alive: Some local and state leaders are now speaking out tonight about the possible cuts to Medicaid under what the President is calling his Big, Beautiful Bill. 
  • […] Georgia’s insurance commissioner John King, Representative Buddy Carter, and Representative Mike Collins all voted in favor of the bill which would leave 750,000 Georgians uninsured. 
  • […] King and Carter have both announced that they are running for U.S. Senate.
  • So the proposed cuts would not only get rid of insurance coverage, but they say we could also see a rise in hospital closures because of the financial strain.

In recent days, multiple Republican candidates for U.S. Senate have vocally thrown their support behind these devastating cuts. Insurance Commissioner John King said he would “absolutely” vote to pass the Medicaid cuts in the GOP’s budget bill if he were in the Senate and Rep. Buddy Carter told Georgians that he “wanted to cut Medicaid more.”

Rep. Mike Collins – who is reportedly weighing a run for U.S. Senate — said he wants people to “get off of Medicaid, get off of Social Security.

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