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    More than 95,000 Georgians lost their Medicaid health coverage last month, the state Department of Community Health reported this week, as Georgia finished its second month of requalifying enrollees.

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    • RT @mwillingham7: Unacceptable! Georgia cuts 95,000 from Medicaid & the majority are eligible kids, more coming https://t.co/pOEX83RnQ5 #tw…

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    While we support any attempt to close the coverage gap and are pleased to see Gov. Brian Kemp and the legislature seeking solutions to our crisis of the uninsured, Georgians deserve better than “Pathways.” Under “Pathways,” hundreds of millions of federal dollars a year will continue to be diverted away from Georgia to other states, the uninsured rate will remain high and rural hospitals will…

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    • We support Medicaid expansion--but not work requirements. Why? "Work requirements do not increase employment, but do create barriers to care and lead to worse health outcomes." Learn more via @ajc 👇🏾 https://t.co/E6dP69Osp3

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    Opinion: The United States lags other developed nations in reducing the rates of new HIV infections and completely eliminating mother-to-child transmission. Links here. In 2017, Black men who have sex with men (MSM) were found to have a higher HIV rate than any singular country in the world, with men living in the southern U.S. being the hardest hit.

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    • Opinion: We can do better in caring for people with HIV. Wonderful oped in ⁦@ajc⁩ by Dr. Khaliah Johnson. We can do better in the US. https://t.co/npXC8SWFYi

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    Atlanta native Joshua Williams is attending the Verbier Festival Academy this summer, a prestigious training and performing program in the Swiss Alps described as a “rite of passage” for young orchestral musicians.

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    • Atlanta musician selected for prestigious Verbier Festival Academy. Wonderful to see that Atlanta native Joshua Williams is attending the ⁦@VerbierFestival⁩ this summer before joining the ⁦@AtlantaSymphony⁩ ⁦@ajc⁩ https://t.co/BtJIi6ME3b

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    While we support any attempt to close the coverage gap and are pleased to see Gov. Brian Kemp and the legislature seeking solutions to our crisis of the uninsured, Georgians deserve better than “Pathways.” Under “Pathways,” hundreds of millions of federal dollars a year will continue to be diverted away from Georgia to other states, the uninsured rate will remain high and rural hospitals will…

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    • RT @CarlosdelRio7: Opinion: Ga.’s limited Medicaid ‘pathway’ costs more, covers less https://t.co/Bs7nADlOxb. Excellent oped by @EmoryMedic…

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    While we support any attempt to close the coverage gap and are pleased to see Gov. Brian Kemp and the legislature seeking solutions to our crisis of the uninsured, Georgians deserve better than “Pathways.” Under “Pathways,” hundreds of millions of federal dollars a year will continue to be diverted away from Georgia to other states, the uninsured rate will remain high and rural hospitals will…

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    • Opinion: Ga.’s limited Medicaid ‘pathway’ costs more, covers less https://t.co/Bs7nADlOxb. Excellent oped by @EmoryMedicine faculty on why not fully expanding Medicaid is costly for Georgians.

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    While we support any attempt to close the coverage gap and are pleased to see Gov. Brian Kemp and the legislature seeking solutions to our crisis of the uninsured, Georgians deserve better than “Pathways.” Under “Pathways,” hundreds of millions of federal dollars a year will continue to be diverted away from Georgia to other states, the uninsured rate will remain high and rural hospitals will…

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    • “…GA ranks last in M’caid coverage due to severely restrictive eligibility. This…has led GA to the 4th-highest uninsured rate, some of the poorest health outcomes & a disturbing # of rural hospital closures. …GA is failing its citizens…” https://t.co/gjTfz1bv5h

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    Today Dr. Rochelle Walensky will begin her life after the pandemic. She announced her plans to step down as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 5, just six days before the federal government declared the end of the public health emergency.

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    • “While we are expected to be a response-ready agency and we are doing that work to become one, we don’t have all the authorities that a agency like FEMA has” https://t.co/MjYBWaR09a