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	<title>Georgians For a Healthy Future &#187; Medicaid</title>
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	<description>Sound Policy. Effective Action.</description>
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		<title>Protecting children, families</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We encourage the Georgia Department of Community Health to adopt a best practices approach by focusing on three evidence-based themes as it redesigns the Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids programs for children: first, coverage matters; second, ensuring access to care requires adequate network capacity and accountability; and third, ensuring quality of care requires system coordination.]]></description>
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		<title>Medicaid Redesign Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest taskforce, focused on children and families will hold its first meeting on March 9th.  GHF's Outreach and Advocacy Director Amanda Ptashkin will be there to represent health care consumers who currently access these programs or who will gain access through the Medicaid expansion in 2014...]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity to weigh in with DCH on Medicaid redesign</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2709?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=opportunity-to-weigh-in-with-dch-on-medicaid-redesign</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several weeks, Navigant, the consulting firm hired by the Georgia Department of Community Health to oversee the Medicaid Redesign assessment, has been conducting focus groups across the state. Currently on the DCH website, there is an online survey for consumers, patients, providers and vendors to weigh in on the process...]]></description>
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		<title>Medicaid and PeachCare Advocacy Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2449?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=medicaid-and-peachcare-advocacy-opportunity</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Access]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the Department of Community Health's Medicaid redesign process, stakeholder focus groups will be held throughout Georgia in the coming months...]]></description>
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		<title>New Resources for Outreach and Enrollment</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2444?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dch-awarded-two-grants</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Ptashkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PeachCare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCH]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia's Department of Community Health (DCH) recently received a federal grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to improve outreach and enrollment for Medicaid and PeachCare. The grant, worth $2.5 million, will allow DCH to use technology solutions to better coordinate enrollment and renewal in Medicaid and PeachCare programs... ]]></description>
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		<title>Medicaid important to Georgia&#8217;s health and economy</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2421?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=medicaid-important-to-georgias-health-and-economy</link>
		<comments>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2421#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when the number of people without health insurance continues to rise, Medicaid and other programs that support health care access for low-income children, families, and the disabled remain at risk...]]></description>
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		<title>Community Health Board Approves Provider Reimbursement Rate Cuts</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2322?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=community-health-board-approves-provider-reimbursement-rate-cuts</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Georgia Department of Community Health Board met earlier this week and approved a .5 percent cut in reimbursement rates for providers participating in the Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids programs.]]></description>
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		<title>Medicaid Block Grant Program is Not The Answer</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/2304?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=medicaid-block-grant-program-is-not-the-answer</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[House Budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gayathri Suresh Kumar, M.D
As a physician at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, I provide care for many patients who are dependent upon Medicaid for their well-being. Without Medicaid, what would happen to my patients? Would they stop coming to their appointments or picking up their medications knowing they no longer can afford health care?]]></description>
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		<title>Potential Health Care Cutbacks Cause for Concern</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/1727?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=potential-health-care-cutbacks-cause-for-concern</link>
		<comments>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/1727#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We recognize that Georgia faces serious fiscal challenges and that our budget crisis warrants thoughtful and creative solutions, but we can think of no worse way to address such challenges than by opening up the floodgates to a series of cuts in health care coverage.]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Control Report Card:  Georgia Fails Nearly Every Category</title>
		<link>http://healthyfuturega.org/archives/1695?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tobacco-control-report-card-georgia-fails-nearly-every-category</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia failed almost every category in the American Lung Association’s State of Tobacco Control 2010 report. These disappointing grades are due to the consistent failure to increase Georgia’s cigarette tax, inadequate funding for tobacco prevention programs and lack of coverage for quit smoking treatments and services for state workers and Medicaid recipients. ]]></description>
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