Commentary: Ease burden on Medicaid, medical workers

Georgia’s Medicaid enrollment has increased by tens of thousands of people during the pandemic.

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That’s going to push the state Medicaid program to its financial limits, says Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia Equality, in a new GHN Commentary.

Graham urges Congress to provide more federal funding for Medicaid, and more support for health care workers on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19.

“Health care workers shouldn’t be forced to reuse masks or surgical gowns that are meant to be disposed of between infected patients,” he writes.

Here’s a link to his Commentary.