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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation's only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that monitors federal programs and spending.

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... The government report examined administrative expenses for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state's experiment with work requirements.

It follows previous reporting by The Current and ProPublica showing that the program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million while enrolling a tiny fraction of those eligible for free health care.

The GAO analysis, which does not include all the Pathways administrative expenses detailed by the news outlets, shows that as of April the Georgia program had spent $54.2 million on administrative costs since 2021, compared to $26.1 million spent on health care costs.

Nearly 90% of administrative expenditures came from the federal budget, the report concluded, meaning that Georgia's experiment is being funded by taxpayers around the country.

Federal spending will likely increase given that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved $6 million more in administrative costs not reflected in this report because it was published before the state submitted invoices. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-25 12:18 AM | Reply

Sounds like Graft and Corruption.

They put up barriers to Care mostly BS employment verification.

Lot of make work jobs verifying a few people and rejecting others for Arbitrary reasons.

The point is not to save money,obviously.

The point is to make using Medicaid so Onerous that people don't sign up.

The make work jobs and consultants fees are just extra.

Only less than 10,000 of a quarter million eligible people have successfully signed up.

Mission Accomplished.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-25 12:34 AM | Reply

@#2 ... Mission Accomplished. ..

For an apparent Russian troll ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-25 12:40 AM | Reply

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