The Democratic candidate for governor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, wasted no time hitting the campaign trail after Republicans settled on her General Election opponent. The former Atlanta mayor was in Commerce Wednesday one day after Republicans chose businessman Rick Jackson as the GOP nominee.
She was there to tout her campaign’s health care reform plank, doing so in front of the now-closed Northridge Medical Center, using it as a symbol of the state’s rural healthcare crisis, the AJC reported.
The hospital closed during the 2020 pandemic but is not the only hospital in the state to close in recent years mostly in rural parts of Georgia.
Bottoms also noted that more than 190,00 Georgians lost their health care coverage last year when the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced federal subsidies expired, and premiums for those who kept their plans have skyrocketed. This, she said, will be one of her top issues during the campaign.