Rick Jackson
Would expand Medicaid under a Georgia-designed plan that steers adults who can work toward jobs, rebuild rural care and use state buying power to cut drug costs.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms
Would expand Medicaid, end the Georgia Pathways program and create a state board to bring down drug prices.
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official action
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Matches stated record claim
Her campaign says she appointed Atlanta's first chief health officer to coordinate the city's response to chronic disease, asthma, HIV and other health problems. On July 25, 2019, her office said she had appointed Dr. Angelica Geter Fugerson as the city's first chief health officer. The job was to build coalitions against new HIV cases, asthma, diabetes and other chronic illness. Limit: Under state law, Fulton and DeKalb counties run public health in Atlanta. The officer's job was to advise the mayor and act as a bridge to the counties.
official action
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Matches stated direction
Her campaign says she made the city's first direct investment in HIV prevention and expanded access to PrEP, a medicine that prevents HIV. In May 2019 the city council unanimously approved her plan to give $100,000 to the Fulton County Board of Health for PrEP and counseling for people at high risk. Her office called it her legislation; Councilmember Antonio Brown sponsored it. Limit: The city records read here do not say whether this was its first HIV prevention spending. The same release lists a separate $10,000 city grant for a mobile HIV testing unit.
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