Georgia Health Care Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022
Georgia’s 2022 Health Care Budget
The Departments of Community Health, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and Public Health are the three primary agencies focused on the state’s health care and public health systems. Georgia plans to provide $5.6 billion in total state funds for these three agencies in the 2022 budget year, or about 20 percent of overall state spending. General Fund appropriations for these agencies account for $4.9 billion, or 87 percent of total state funds, while other sources account for about $696 million. General Fund dollars for these three agencies increased by $409 million from 2021 to 2022.
Investigating child welfare system in Georgia 11alive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 11alive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the past five years, 1,268 children in Georgia were abandoned or surrendered to the state due to a parent s inability to cope or the child s behavioral issues. More than half of those children were abandoned more than once, generally in relation to a mental or developmental disability.
A series by 11Alive s investigative team,
, looked into the numbers, but more importantly, spoke to families who said their only option was to give up custody of their children. Abandon sounds like a harsh term for a heartbreaking situation. The solutions are just as complicated as the reasons why parents make the decision. But the law is crystal clear.
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