Expanding Medicaid in Georgia to cover more people would not only increase health coverage, it would also boost employment, according to a new analysis. Recent federal legislation sweetens the deal even more for the 14 states like Georgia that have not done it and could bring billions to the state's economy, the study found.
The analysis by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund and the Center for Health Policy Research in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University looked at the impact of expanding Medicaid in Georgia and other states and the impact on their state budgets and economies.