The health policy role of a county commissioner is much more complicated than most people realize. As a member of a board of commissioners, you have to make decisions based on the needs of your community, rather than on increasing the organization’s bottom line, as for-profit companies do.
What are a county’s health care responsibilities?
First, every county has the growing expense of inmate health care, mandated by law. Second, although counties in Georgia are not legally required to fund indigent care in hospitals and elsewhere, many do, either because of political pressures or just because it is the humane thing to do. There is no other way to provide needed care to low-income taxpayers who fall between the cracks, making very little money, but too much for Medicaid.
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