Oconee County Legislative Delegation Focused On Health Care In Talk About 2017 General Assembly Session

Health care issues in the state dominated a briefing on the 2017 legislative session that Oconee County’s delegation to the Georgia General Assembly gave to county Republicans late last month.

Much of that discussion centered on the need for the state to provide adequate health care outside the major metropolitan areas and particularly outside Atlanta.

A stumbling block for the legislators was uncertainty about what Congress was going to do with the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Bill Cowsert told the group, meeting at the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce on Nancy Street in Watkinsville.

When the General Assembly ended its session at the end of March, the U.S. House of Representatives had not yet passed the American Health Care Act, which is now before the Senate.

Cowsert described the state as in “a little bit of a holding pattern” waiting on action in Washington.

For more on the story, with a video of the meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Rep. Chuck Williams, Sen. Bill Cowsert, Rep. Regina Quick, (left to right).