Everyday People Matter
During the period of the public health emergency of COVID-19, states were required to keep individuals on Medicaid rolls without annual reviews. In May of this year, the Biden administration removed the public health emergency. Now states have from April 2023 to...
Reports of Long Covid diagnoses and symptoms in patients have dropped since the beginning of the pandemic. The percentage of people who have had COVID and currently report long COVID symptoms declined from 19% in June 2022 to 11% in January 2023. That...
More and more Georgians are dying of drug overdoses. Drug overdoses have become a growing epidemic both in Georgia and nationally, increasing to skyrocketing rates since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Georgia Department of Public Health reports from 2019-2021, the total...
In 2021, The American Rescue Plan (ARP) implemented a One Year Child Tax Credit Expansion. The ARP increased the credit from $2000 per child and it raised the age limit from 16 to 17 years. The plan provided a credit for all working families earning up to $150,000...
Georgians receiving SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progam) benefits will see cost of living adjustments for 2023. Many of these adjustments actually began in October 2022. The inflation rated adjustment bumped benefits up 12.5%. A single individual...
Every September 21st each year is recognized as World Alzheimer’s Day. Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia that affects memory and impairs daily functions. Alzheimer’s is the 7th most prevalent cause of death in the United States. There is no cure although...
Recently one of my uninsured disability clients told me she was receiving healthcare at Wal-mart. When I looked it up, incredulously, it turns out Wal-mart is in the healthcare business. Wal-mart has 4000 stores located in medically underserved communities. ...
Despite earlier judicial arguments by Republicans that abortion is a “state’s rights” issue, Senate Republican Lindsey Graham just introduced a national abortion ban at fifteen weeks The bill includes procedures that are medication only abortions. Moreover, the...
August is Back to School Month for families with school age children. The National Retail Federation (NRF) notes that consumers were cutting back on non-essential items or shopping sales in order to afford back to school supplies with the current inflation rate. For...
The Social Security Administration operates a Compassionate Allowance Program that identifies certain medical conditions that it will consider disabling. These conditions allow SSA to accelerate claims processing for disability. These medical conditions usually...