High-quality healthcare is crucial for economic security, workforce productivity, healthy communities, and a strong society. Access to high-quality, affordable healthcare is a basic human right.  Providers, policymakers, industry leaders, and the public must collaborate to reform and restructure our health delivery and financing system to secure this right. 

Georgia Democrats support:

• Expanding Medicaid now and protecting access to Medicare while working towards a universal healthcare system to provide comprehensive and affordable healthcare.  Ensuring access to quality, affordable physical and mental healthcare in all communities, including developing and increasing access to services for vulnerable, rural, and penal populations, and those entering substance use disorder treatment programs.
• Empowering individuals to make healthcare decisions freely. Utilizing technology and innovation for cost-efficient healthcare options. Promoting programs that provide accessibility to participation in health and wellness services.  
• Support and advocate for reproductive freedom for all including abortion, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and any other fertility or contraceptive use. 
• Georgia is among the worst morbidity and mortality rates for women giving birth, especially Black women and poor women. Georgia must research the causes of the high maternal mortality and implement programs to reduce it. 
• At the time of this drafting, the number 1 cause of death for children is gun violence. Gun violence is a public health emergency and Georgia must take action to reduce the impact of gun violence.
• Legislating gun safety, based on accurate and scientific information and statistics, to reduce firearm deaths.
• Implementing preventive interventions for special needs populations, particularly children and seniors. Increasing funding for home healthcare programs as alternatives to long-term nursing home care and expanding funding for in-home care by related individuals. Improve the quality of long-term care facilities by enforcing the regulations and safety checks already in existence. 
• Promoting Georgia as a premier health research location through partnerships with private enterprises and research universities, including support for embryonic stem cell research.

Excerpt taken from the Democratic Party of Georgia Platform, adopted May of 2024.
–Muscogee Democratic Committee