Attorney General Thurbert Baker didn’t get much ink in my story about the Democratic gubernatorial debate Tuesday. Roy Barnes and DuBose Porter had most of the best lines of the night. But Baker did give a good answer to a question about health care reform that didn’t fit in the article.
“My oldest daughter has been diabetic since she was 5 years old ... She recently graduated from college and the thing that her mother and I worried the most about was how we were going to make sure she kept her insurance coverage between the time left college and when she started to work…if she lost her insurance coverage she may not be able to get any more because of a pre-existing illness. These are the challenges that families all over this state have to go through. There are over 1.7 million Georgians who don’t have insurance coverage and over 266,000 children in this state who don’t have insurance coverage. This ought to be a priority for Georgia’s government and as Governor of this state I will make sure that those people have access and coverage.”
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HCR Story Morphing to Reality
Important words from Mr. Baker for sure, the insurance companies wish we would fall for their memes and believe this is a dead issue and we have lost the fight...but the truth is movements toward universal coverage are growing in support from the public and from policy-makers in regions across the country-it is a movement that will take several years to mature.