Tax Cigarettes - Not hospitals
A proposal by Georgia’s Governor Sonny Perdue to impose a 1.6 percent “sick tax” on Georgia’s hospitals. The Bill’s intent is to apply a ’sick tax’ on hospitals as a way to generate revenue to be used in the State Medicaid program. An alternative funding is being offered that would raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1.
Opposition to the Bill is rapidly growing across the state, including hospitals and Georgia’s Academy of Family Physicians. This tax would cost St. Joseph’s Candler Health System in Savannah at least $4.1 million a year.
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