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		<title>Report Spotlights Ways to Enhance Health Care for GA Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of Georgia’s leading health care advocacy organizations issued a report saying the state could significantly expand medical care to more than 200,000 uninsured children with administrative practices, coverage policies and technologies already being used in other states.
 
The report, titled “Modernizing Medicaid and PeachCare: Promising Program Design Options for Georgia’s Children” – was commissioned by Voices for Georgia’s Children and Georgians for a Healthy Future, and compares Georgia systems for child health coverage and access to those in a variety of other states. ]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Committee Issues Final Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Committee issued its final report this week, calling for the development of a small business health insurance marketplace outside the context of the exchange framework authorized by the Affordable Care Act but failing to explicitly recommend the establishment of a health insurance exchange for individual consumers.]]></description>
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		<title>Georgians for a Healthy Future ED Named as NAIC Consumer Liaison Representative</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Executive Director, Cindy Zeldin, was named by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) as one of 28 consumer liaison representatives from across the country for 2012...]]></description>
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		<title>Widening the Safety Net and Ensuring Greater Access to Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Ptashkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday November 30, Georgians for a Healthy Future hosted the last &#8220;Building a Healthy Georgia&#8221; event for 2011 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia&#8217;s health insurance exchange committee finalizes work, receives national press</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final report of the Governor’s health insurance exchange advisory committee is expected on December 15th. The work of the committee received attention in the Washington Post and Kaiser Health News this week...]]></description>
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		<title>Developing essential health benefits: opportunity to provide input</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in 2014, many health insurance plans, including those to be offered through the new state-based health insurance exchanges, must cover a minimum package of preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic services and products comparable to those offered in a typical employment-based plan...]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Health Care Reform on  Central Georgia’s 50+ Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Ptashkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, November 15, Georgians for a Healthy Future along with AARP of Georgia and the Middle Georgia Area Agency on Aging continued our Building a Healthy Georgia campaign in Macon with an educational forum for local residents...]]></description>
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		<title>New Plain Language Summary of Benefits Form At Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you find your health insurance forms full of jargon and fine print? A little known but important provision of the Affordable Care Act requires health insurance companies to utilize a uniform, standardized form that allows consumers to better understand their coverage and compare their options...]]></description>
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		<title>Final Ruling on Insurance Standards Issued</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to your support and advocacy, Georgia consumers will experience better value in their health insurance plans and will receive rebates if their insurance companies cannot meet these reasonable standards of value. While the decision didn't go as far as health care consumer advocates would have liked, HHS made a balanced decision that carefully considered the needs of health care consumers...]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity for Input on Essential Health Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in 2014, many health insurance plans, including those to be offered through the new state-based health insurance exchanges, must cover a minimum package of preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic services and products comparable to those offered in a typical employment-based plan. Now HHS is seeking input from consumers, providers, businesses, insurers, state government officials, and other stakeholders by holding regional listening sessions...]]></description>
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