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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.
Published July 12. 2021 12:01AM
Peter Schultheis
It took a special legislation session in order for cannabis to be legalized in Connecticut. I could not help but feel once again that this act is much more about money than any other substantial benefit to our state.
It reminds me the adage: just because something is useful (tax revenues) does not mean it is good.
I do understand the social justice/equity elements of this new law. My primary concern remains that legalizing yet another drug and adding it to our plate (remember opioids?) runs counter to my basic sensibilities.
An article by Dr. Brad A. Roberts, “Legalized Cannabis in Colorado Emergency Departments: A Cautionary View of Negative Health and Safety Effects” lays out multiple health and safety issues experienced by cannabis users. These include psychosis, suicide, “decrements in complex decision making,” increases in motor vehicle accidents, etc. And these are just a few of the adverse outcomes people have exp
State receives its annual Tobacco Settlement payment radioiowa.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radioiowa.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Iowa has received this year’s payment of $52.9 million from a 1998 landmark tobacco settlement. With this payment, Iowa has received more than $1.36 billion over the past 23 years, and these will continue in perpetuity, based on the number of cigarettes sold in the U.S. “This settlement is nearly a quarter-century old, but our office must diligently monitor and enforce the agreement’s provisions each year so Iowa gets its fair share of the settlement,” says Iowa Attorney General, Tom Miller. Twenty-two percent, or about $11.6 million, will go to the state. The remaining 78 percent will be used principally to pay bondholders who bought bonds issued by the Tobacco Settlement Authority. State Treasurer, Michael Fitzgerald, has announced that Iowa refunded its tobacco settlement bonds this month, resulting in more than $167 million in savings for the state over the life of the bonds. The 2021 payment came from 29 companies, including Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Santa Fe Nat