About 1 in 10 Americans do not have health insurance coverage. This severely limits a significant part of the population from receiving comprehensive health services such as prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of disease. Adequate healthcare access also refers to the ease and affordability of obtaining health care services. Listed below, community health workers, health justice advocates, and health policy researchers will find resources and organizations looking to expand access to healthcare through areas like transportation, insurance assistance, and other sociocultural efforts.
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Legislative Committees
House Committee on Health and Human Services
This committee is responsible for
legislation that affects the conditions of safety regulations and social services for the citizens of Georgia. This committee also addresses the legal areas surrounding medical professionals and medicinal provisions.
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
This committee has general
jurisdiction over legislation relating to healthcare and social services.
This committee also addresses areas related to the licensing and regulation of healthcare professionals.
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Bright Pink
Provides grants to support breast and ovarian health initiatives, educates women on breast/ovarian health basics through in-person workshops, offers support programs, and develops personalized prevention plans.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Coverage
Helps people pay for their health conditions, including chronic conditions.
Dollar For
Helps patients check if they are eligible for financial assistance, prepare and submit applications, and get hospital medical bills forgiven.
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE)
Improves the lives of individuals and families facing hereditary cancer by providing expert-reviewed information to help people make informed medical decisions and championing policies, better treatment, and prevention options.
Health Policy Network
Educates on health policy, substance use disorder, and drug policy. Also provides recommendations to decision-makers, initiates research, and connects academic researchers, educators, public health professionals and healthcare practitioners to collaborate on public health research and policy analysis.
Kroger – The Little Clinic
Offers physicals, everyday vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, virtual visits, visits to determine why the consumer isn’t feeling well, travel vaccines, and other healthcare services.
MinuteClinic – Walk-in Clinics in Georgia at CVS
MinuteClinic offers affordable and convenient healthcare services
National Consumer Law Center
Helps consumers, their advocates, and policymakers through consumer law treatises, practice aids, and primary sources.
Patient Advocate Foundation
Works to be an active liaison between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters related to their diagnosis. They provide free one-on-one case management and live chat services for patients or caregivers with a debilitating, chronic, or life-threatening disease.
Walmart Care Clinics
Provides primary care, dental, counseling, labs, imaging, health screening, optometry, hearing, fitness and nutrition, and health insurance education and enrollment.
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Statewide
Department of Health – Georgia Breast and Cervical Cancer Program
Offers breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic services, and referral to treatment to uninsured women residing in Georgia under 200 percent of the federal poverty level, plus rarely/never-screened women.
Department of Human Services
Delivers a wide range of human services designed to promote self-sufficiency, safety, and well-being for all Georgians.
Georgians for a Healthy Future
Partners with advocates, community organizations, and consumers to build and mobilize a unified voice, vision, and leadership to achieve a healthy future for all Georgians.
Georgia Health Policy Center
Implements research, policy, and programs. Works with public and private organizations at the national, state, and local levels to positively impact community health.
Georgia School Based Health Care (SBHCs)
Helps give children and their parents easy-to-access healthcare.
Georgia Watch
Seeks to ensure and expand access to safe, quality, affordable healthcare for all Georgians through consumer empowerment, policy development, and advocacy.
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Metro Atlanta
Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI)
Driving a movement that unites community perspective with institutional action to accelerate health improvement.
Healing Community Center
Provides diagnosis and treatment at their centers across Atlanta. It also provides oral health.
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Coastal Georgia
Diversity Healthcare
Provides primary, preventative, and mental health care services to the residents of its service area with a particular focus on the uninsured and underserved residents.
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Healthcare Access Resources
American Cancer Society
Programs and Resources to Help with Cancer-related Expenses
Arthritis Foundation
Paying for Care Resources
Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI)
Health Disparities by the Numbers: Fulton and DeKalb County by Race/Ethnicity
Benefits Explorer
Free Clinics in Paulding County, Georgia
Building Clean
Possible Hazards by Type of Sealant
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Consumers Union
Surprise Medical Bills: Resources
Emory University School of Medicine & Emory Glenn Family Breast Cancer Winship Cancer Institute
Breast Cancer Genetics Referral Screening Tool (B-RST)
Families USA
Surprise Medical Bills
Fifth Season Financial Funds for Living
Financial Assistance for Cancer Patients in Georgia
Georgia Core
Breast & Ovarian Cancer Genetics Referral Screening App
Financial Assistance Resources
Georgia Watch
Accessing Affordable Healthcare: A Guide for the Uninsured
Georgia Consumer Guide for Medical Bills and Debt
Handling Medical Bills: Know Your Rights
Healthcare affordability in Georgia
Healthcare Affordability Primer
Hospitals and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Medical Loss Ratio Rules: Ensuring Value for Georgia’s Health Care Consumers
Metropolitan Atlanta Hospital Accountability Project
Resources: Handling Medical Bills and Debt
Georgia Wealth Partners
How to Plan Long-Term Care Before You Need It
Georgians for a Healthy Future
Enrollment Toolkit: Your Guide to Health Insurance
Health Insurance Complaints and Appeals
Healthcare Georgia Foundation
Health Voices: Financial Assistance at Hospitals
National Consumer Law Center
COVID-19 & Consumer Protections
Dealing with Medical Debt: Consumer Advice from NCLC
Patient’s Advocate
Navigating the Insurance Appeals Process
The Leapfrog Group
Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
U.S. Department of Energy
Home Rx: The Health Benefits of Home Performance