Efforts to expand Medicaid coverage in Georgia shot down in state Senate committee

ATLANTA - A plan by state Senate Democrats and some Republicans to fully expand Medicaid coverage in Georgia was shot down Thursday by the narrowest margin - a tie vote in a Senate committee. Sen. David Lucas, D-Macon, working with Sen. Matt Brass, R-Newnan, brought a proposal to expand Georgia's Medicaid program through a waiver the state would seek from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Georgia's Republican governors and legislative leaders have refused to consider fully expanding Medicaid coverage for more than a decade since a then-Democratic...