Rep. Gardner: Why Georgia should expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act
State Rep. Pat Gardner explains that by expanding Medicaid, almost 700,000 state residents "will no longer rely on hospital emergency rooms to get their care for free, but will have access to a doctor in their community."
Editor's note: Morningside resident Pat Gardner has served since 2001 as Representative from Georgia House District 57. The new District 57 boundaries run from Morningside to SW Atlanta, including portions of Virginia-Highland, Midtown and neighborhoods east of Downtown Atlanta. See here to be a part of her mailing list. Gardner presently serves on the House Appropriations, Transportation, Higher Education and Natural Resources & Environment Committees and the Appropriations Committee’s Health Subcommittee. She is the Treasurer of the Working Families Caucus, Chair of the Health and Welfare Subcommittee of the Fulton County Delegation, and immediate past chair of the Women’s Legislative Caucus. Recent appointments by the Speaker include …
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