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		<title>New plain language tools for consumers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued final regulations on February 9th requiring an easy-to-understand Summary of Benefits and Coverage and a uniform glossary of terms. These new tools will be available to consumers on September 23, 2012...]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Essential Health Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgians for a Healthy Future is monitoring developments at the federal level that will impact benefits and consumer protections for new individual and small group health plans in Georgia beginning in 2014...]]></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>GHF leads fight to protect new consumer-friendly health insurance standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to your strong support, Georgians for a Healthy Future and Georgia Watch are proud to announce that we jointly submitted public comments on behalf of 17 Georgia organizations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting that exciting new health insurance standards that provide increased transparency and value for health care consumers, known as medical loss ratio rules, go through as planned...]]></description>
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		<title>Bills We&#8217;re Watching:  HB 476</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, House Bill 476, which would establish the Georgia Health Exchange Authority, was introduced. The legislation sets up a governance structure for a state health insurance exchange and creates an advisory committee to advise the governing board on the design, implementation, and operation of the exchange.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care and the Race for Insurance Commissioner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To educate Georgia voters on the role of the Insurance Commissioner with respect to health care issues, Georgians for a Healthy Future and Voices for Georgia’s Children surveyed the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian candidates for Insurance Commissioner. All three candidates provided responses to eight questions about how they would approach the health insurance issues that fall under the purview of the office they are seeking.]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling Georgians Deserve Better Health Care Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these difficult economic times, the loss of a job is frequently compounded by the loss of the health insurance that had been tied to it. With unemployment rates hovering near 10 percent, more and more Georgians are facing this dual predicament.]]></description>
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