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'''Rebekah Elizabeth Gee''' (born December 4, 1975)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/rebekah-gee/rebekah_gee?valid=true&|title=Rebekah Gee|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 7, 2020}}</ref>

'''Rebekah Elizabeth Gee''' (born December 4, 1975)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/rebekah-gee/rebekah_gee?valid=true&|title=Rebekah Gee|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 7, 2020}}</ref>

is a [[physician]] who is the departing director of the [[Louisiana]] Department of Health. She assumed her position in 2016 in the first term of [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]].  Though Edwards maintains a "[[pro-life]]" political position, Gee supports [[abortion]].<ref name=mballard>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_b0243d84-9368-59ef-bd30-f9f7f8bdc58a.html|title=Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards names Dr. Rebekah E. Gee health chief -- causing unease for anti-abortion groups|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Mark Ballard|date=January 14, 2016|accessdate=January 7, 2020}}</ref>

is a [[physician]] who is the former director of the [[Louisiana]] Department of Health. She assumed her position in 2016 in the first term of [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]].  Though Edwards maintains a "[[pro-life]]" political position, Gee supports [[abortion]].<ref name=mballard>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_b0243d84-9368-59ef-bd30-f9f7f8bdc58a.html|title=Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards names Dr. Rebekah E. Gee health chief -- causing unease for anti-abortion groups|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Mark Ballard|date=January 14, 2016|accessdate=January 7, 2020}}</ref>

At the start of his administration, Edwards ordered Gee to expand the state's [[Medicaid]] rolls.  "Under her leadership, we brought health care to more than 460,000 hard-working adults who now have access to the medical services they need to live healthier lives, to fight chronic illness and, in some  cases, survive." Edwards said.<ref name=ghilburn>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/01/06/louisiana-health-secretary-rebekah-gee-who-oversaw-john-bel-edwardes-medicaid-expansion-resigns/2825088001/|title=Louisiana Secretary of Health Rebekah Gee, who oversaw Medicaid expansion, resigns|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|accessdate=January 7, 2020}}</ref> [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Neely Kennedy]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] critic of the Edwards administration, questioned Gee's spending of $200 million on ineligible  Medicaid recipients. Kennedy dubbed Gee "incompetent" and called for her resignation.<ref name=ghilburn/>  

At the start of his administration, Edwards ordered Gee to expand the state's [[Medicaid]] rolls.  "Under her leadership, we brought health care to more than 460,000 hard-working adults who now have access to the medical services they need to live healthier lives, to fight chronic illness and, in some  cases, survive." Edwards said.<ref name=ghilburn>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/01/06/louisiana-health-secretary-rebekah-gee-who-oversaw-john-bel-edwardes-medicaid-expansion-resigns/2825088001/|title=Louisiana Secretary of Health Rebekah Gee, who oversaw Medicaid expansion, resigns|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|accessdate=January 7, 2020}}</ref> [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Neely Kennedy]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] critic of the Edwards administration, questioned Gee's spending of $200 million on ineligible  Medicaid recipients. Kennedy dubbed Gee "incompetent" and called for her resignation.<ref name=ghilburn/>