I think it’s TBD on whether Georgia will get there or not,” Colbert said. “Some state-based marketplaces have done some really innovative things. She also suggested offering to let people buy health insurance using their income tax refunds, and a one-stop application for Medicaid, Peach Care insurance for children and the state marketplace. For example, she suggested Georgia could extend its enrollment period past the normal Nov. Kemp administration officials say they’re prepared to launch the marketplace quickly because of all the work they did on the earlier proposal, on which they spent at least $31 million.Ī state-based market could have some advantages, Colbert said. President Joe Biden’s administration balked at Kemp’s plan, and after a legal wrangle, Kemp agreed to a central state marketplace that would only sell federally approved policies. “That would have really rolled Georgia back to the bad old times where insurers really had the leg up on consumers, where it was incredibly hard to compare plans,” Colbert said, calling Kemp’s original plan a “non-marketplace.” And like all states, Georgia is reviewing the eligibility of all its 2.4 Medicaid recipients as a pandemic-era rule ends that blocked the state from removing any beneficiaries. Kemp’s administration also plans to launch in July a partial expansion of Medicaid to insure some able-bodied adults who have incomes below the poverty line but are working or attending school. The law is one of three big changes that could affect hundreds of thousands of Georgians who get subsidized health insurance through the state and federal government. “Georgians know their needs and those of their families best,” he said. The Republican governor said during a ceremony at the state Capitol that the law would create a better way of people “knowing and comparing their health care insurance options” and bring “further competition to the field.” ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia’s state government will for the first time run its own marketplace for individual health insurance under a law that Gov. George Santos returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday, a day after federal prosecutors on Long Island filed criminal charges against him, staying largely out of sight except for.
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