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The major overhaul of our health care system is now over a month old but it is now that the hard work really begins.  Over the next few months and even years, groups like Georgians for a Healthy Future and others will be deciphering the most complex parts of the law and translating them in to real-time useful information for you and your family.  While we’re doing that, we will try to provide you with a handful of resources that can help!  Here’s the first installment of useful tools that will help you understand the massive change that our health care system is undergoing.


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Health Reform and The Georgia Governor’s Race

By Benjamin Nanes


Starting in 2014, the health care reform legislation recently passed by Congress will prohibit insurers from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. For the next few years though, insurers will be allowed to continue their current practice of charging higher premiums for people with chronic medical conditions, or denying coverage altogether. In order to provide immediate help to those who are unable to purchase health insurance because of preexisting conditions, the legislation also provides for the creation of state-based high-risk pools where people who could not purchase insurance elsewhere would be able to find coverage. But Georgia’s insurance commissioner and Republican candidate for governor, John Oxendine, doesn’t want the state to participate.


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Nearly two million Georgians are uninsured.Source: CPS data
Georgia’s infant mortality rate is among the worst in the nation.Source: KidsCount
Georgia ranks 38th in health system performance.Source: Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard
2012 is a critical year for health care advocacy--your voice matters!Source: GHF

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