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Tucked into a newly released measure by top House Republicans to roll back hospital regulations is a tacit acknowledgement that a push to expand Georgia’s Medicaid program likely won’t happen this year. The bill introduced Tuesday by House Speaker Jon Burns and his deputies includes a provision that would set up a study committee to examine the Arkansas Medicaid waiver to add more people to the public health rolls in Georgia. In legislative parlance, it’s a way of delaying what was already viewed as a long-shot proposal to expand Medicaid until after the November election. Absent a last-minute…

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