ATLANTA -- A Senate health committee Monday unexpectedly rejected a bill that would allow an individual or corporation to get a state tax credit for donating money to a rural health care organization.
The sponsor, Rep. Geoff Duncan, a Cumming Republican, told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee before its vote that rural health care in Georgia is “at crisis level.’’ He said the proposal would potentially help 39 rural hospitals that fit the criteria listed in House Bill 919.