Earlier in the week it appeared the controversial tax, intended to shore up a $600 million gap in the state’s Medicaid funding, would stall in the Senate. But the addition of a last-minute amendment that would cut a tax to insurers on health insurance premiums when the state’s revenue shortfall reserve is funded at $500 million helped push the measure through, according to the Journal Constitution.
The bill must now go back to the House for another vote because of the three amendments that were added.
Read The Atlanta Journal Constitution‘s report on the hospital tax.
