Rising Healthcare Costs Have Hit Georgia’s Most Conservative District. But Its Politics Are Unlikely To Change. By Briah Lumpkins Sept. 15, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/health-care-costs/high-healthcare-costs-georgia-14th-trump-aca-obamacare-marjorie-taylor-greene/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--yOlTdn_JddCNefsnt7cdyyx3PYZfYjqlqtx-8YWZ6jKeKpZVqHlJElfb44T6BoMP891_PydQw5HR6fXlnc0147vOePw&_hsmi=439080835&utm_content=439080835&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: Rising Healthcare Costs Have Hit Georgia’s Most Conservative District. But Its Politics Are Unlikely To Change Amber Bates of Cohutta, Georgia, is one of thousands of people without health insurance in the 14th Congressional District, home to about 765,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state. She and her husband have not had health coverage for the past two years, Bates said, because their employment is unsteady and they earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, the public health insurance for those with disabilities or low incomes. (Lumpkins, 9/15)