Georgia has approximately 1.4 million uninsured adults, one of the highest rates in the nation. It also has the nation’s only Medicaid work experiment — a program called Georgia Pathways — that offers health insurance for low-income adults who can prove they are working, studying or volunteering 80 hours each month.
The Current GA in partnership with ProPublica reveals in a series of stories how the state awarded Deloitte Consulting tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to promote Georgia Pathways, but has not linked the consultants’ work to enrollment goals. When a $10.7 million publicity contract started last summer, enrollment in Georgia Pathways was about 2% — when it ended in February, enrollment was under 3%.
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Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care, GAO says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
What Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement tells us about costs of ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Georgia spent $55M to build the verification system for its Medicaid work requirement policy, currently the only one in the nation. But in their draft bill, GOP leaders have allocated just $100M to help all 50 states stand up similar systems.
Firm running Georgia’s struggling Medicaid experiment was also paid millions to sell it to public
Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.
He became the face of Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement. Now he’s fed up with it.
A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, bureaucratic red tape has him at his wit’s end.
House bill seeks to expand Medicaid work requirements nationwide
A draft bill being debated in the House of Representatives could make Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program permanent for millions of low-income Americans, potentially cutting health care for 13.7 million people by 2034.