Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

The right to health care is the right to life. Every year, people without access to doctors and treatment, right here in Georgia, are dying prematurely or from entirely preventable causes, and that includes kids.

It's a public shame for our state, and it doesn't have to continue.

As a member of the Health and Human Services Committee -- not to mention the father of two children I love dearly and the husband of an ER nurse -- I am committed to increasing access to healthcare in our state, not continuing to restrict it.

We need fully operational rural hospitals, trauma centers within a reasonable distance of all Georgians, and better technology to bring care within reach for more people while reducing the cost of providing that care.

I also support expanding Medicaid while making the hard political choices necessary to ensure it can pay for itself well into the future.

It simply costs more to provide treatment to people who aren't insured, who aren't getting preventive care, who are distant from treatment centers, and who don't have access to technology such as remote conferencing with specialists. So let's do what makes sense and invest in our healthcare system like we invest in our highways and power plants -- the return on that investment will be tremendous.

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