New state healthcare commission named starting process of possibly expanding Medicaid in GA WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

ATLANTA — The process to determine if fully expanding Medicaid for low-income and uninsured Georgians is about to begin.

Next month, a state health care commission will begin considering options including if the governor’s Pathways program is the best way to achieve that goal.

“I think we make really good decisions when we deal with the facts,” House Speaker Jon Burns told Channel 2′s Richard Elliot.

Elliot spoke exclusively with Burns Friday at his home in Effingham County about the new state healthcare commission.

He made his picks for it Thursday: A vice president of an elderly healthcare association, an ophthalmologist, a general surgeon, and the CEO of a Macon healthcare company.

Burns told Elliot that he wants them to get those facts.

“This commission will help us put the facts before us and will challenge us. It’ll challenge us to make some decisions that sometimes may be out of …