Georgia GOP Gov Candidate-Backed Health Care Price Spike Leads to Skyrocketing Premiums and Devastating Job Loss

Georgia GOP Gov Candidate-Backed Health Care Price Spike Leads to Skyrocketing Premiums and Devastating Job Loss

New reporting from Punchbowl details how Georgians' ACA "premiums could as much as quadruple, with a deductible of up to $10,000" thanks to D.C. Republicans' health care price spike that GOP gubernatorial candidates Burt Jones, Chris Carr, and Brad Raffensperger support.

This "massive price shock" comes as 460,000 Georgians will lose their health care and "Georgia is expected to lose about 33,600 jobs next year" in the health care, real estate, construction, and service industries because of D.C. Republicans' deeply unpopular budget law.

Health care is set to be a major liability for all three Republican candidates. Jones and Carr have both said they support D.C. Republicans' move to shut down the government rather than work across the aisle to fix this health care price spike. The entire field has records of opposing Medicaid expansion and backing Georgia's Pathways program, which a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office revealed has wasted taxpayer money on administrative costs rather than actually providing health care to working Georgians.

Read more on the devastating impacts of the GOP health care price spike on Georgia:

• Punchbowl: "Regardless of what happens with the enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies at the heart of this record-breaking funding clash, health care is already playing a huge role … soaring health-care costs - on top of rising prices for food, housing and electricity - are hammering voters … In Georgia, there are already reports that monthly Obamacare premiums could as much as quadruple, with a deductible of up to $10,000, a massive price shock for Peach State enrollees."

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Georgia is expected to lose about 33,600 jobs next year if federal subsidies on the Affordable Care Act marketplace exchange expire, according to a new forecast."

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