Healthcare to be a Critical Issue for General Assembly ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - The 2009 session of the Georgia General Assembly convenes Monday. This week, WABE is taking a look at a handful of critical issues that are likely to command lawmakers' attention. Healthcare--its accessibility and its affordability-- seems to be a recurring theme as the state continually underfunds Medicaid. When WABE's Steve Goss spoke with Dr. Art Kellermann, professor and Associate Dean for Health Policy at the Emory School of Medicine, he offered an explanation for the discrepancy: © Copyright 2012, WABE