Many buy high deductible health plans (UPI)

ATLANTA, April 3 (UPI) -- In 2007, 17.3 percent of U.S. adults under age 65 with private health insurance were enrolled in a high deductible health plan, researchers said.
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Beaconcast LEGISLATIVE BRIEFS: $18.6 billion budget OK’d Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA The House and Senate approved an $18.6 billion budget Friday that avoids new health insurance premium increases for 225000 teachers and state employees. It also uses
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Kennesaw to city employees: Be healthy or pay more - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Kennesaw to city employees: Be healthy or pay more Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 19 hours ago Kennesaw dropped traditional health insurance coverage about four years ago. It went with a self-funded model in which premiums go toward paying claims and ...
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Georgia unemployment resources Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 18 hours ago Find out how to apply for unemployment benefits in Georgia , information on COBRA health insurance , how
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Ga. gov proposes new fees on hospitals, insurers - Forbes

WJBF-TV Ga . gov proposes new fees on hospitals, insurers Forbes, NY - Jan 14, 2009 Sonny Perdue proposed filling a $208 million Medicaid funding deficit with new fees on hospitals and health insurance plans. The governor's plan would ... Perdue hits wall on new fees to fund trauma care Atlanta Journal Constitution Perdue: State of the future bleak Columbus Ledger-Enquirer InsiderAdvantage Georgia Insider Advantage Georgia Augusta Chronicle  - WTVC all 150 news articles
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Teachers’ fund to lose $525 million - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Teachers’ fund to lose $525 million Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 9 hours ago Budget crisis: Money from state’s health insurance reserves will soften impact of spending cuts, governor’s spokesman says. By Andy Miller Georgia officials ...
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Georgia officials plan to cut $525 million from reserves in the health insurance plan for school teachers and state employees to alleviate some of the severe budget crunch.
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OBAMA TARGETS MIDDLE CLASS - Atlanta Journal Constitution

OBAMA TARGETS MIDDLE CLASS Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 10 hours ago Meanwhile, she complained, her health insurance benefits aren’t nearly as generous as those available to her patients who receive government assistance. ...
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... term. However, they are a long way from producing treatments approved by the FDA, clinically available in the US and paid for by health insurance. Stem cell studies with lab animals
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Uninsured Rates In Georgia Expected To Increase Amid Economic Recession, Growing Job Losses (Medical News Today)

Twenty percent of Georgia residents younger than age 65 in 2007 did not have health insurance, nearly the same rate as in 2006, but the number of uninsured residents is expected to increase in 2008 and 2009 because of the economic recession, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health Services Research at Georgia State University, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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Georgia ’s health-care prognosis
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Number of state’s uninsured swells - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Number of state’s uninsured swells Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - Dec 11, 2008 By Andy Miller Private health insurance coverage in Georgia has steadily eroded during this decade, and the state has the sixth-highest number of uninsured ... Recession will add to Georgia's uninsured rolls WABE all 11 news articles
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ATLANTA (MyFOX ATLANTA) – A new Georgia State University poll shows about 1.5 million
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Which Is More Important, Your Doctor or a Personal Injury Lawyer? - American Enterprise Institute

Which Is More Important, Your Doctor or a Personal Injury Lawyer? American Enterprise Institute, DC - 1 hour ago As we continue to develop solutions aimed at increasing health insurance coverage for all Americans, we must create an intelligent system of health justice. ...
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Sovo.com Georgia's Senator Saxby Chambliss is Proof that Americans Reject a ... Hawaii Reporter, HI - 22 hours ago Saxby has fought
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Health insurers offer to accept all applicants, on condition

WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it supported an overhaul of the health care system that would require insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability. But in return, insurers said, Congress should require that all Americans have coverage. The proposals, put forward by the two main trade associations for the industry, have the potential to reshape and advance the debate over universal health insurance just as President-elect Barack Obama
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Mandate sets priorities for Obama’s to-do list - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Mandate sets priorities for Obama’s to-do list Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 15 hours ago Bush vetoed — twice — a measure that would reauthorize the federal and state program aimed at providing government-subsidized health insurance for the ...
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ISSUE IN-DEPTH: FIRST STEPS FOR NEW PRESIDENT TO TAKE: Mandate ... Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 13 hours ago Bush vetoed —- twice —-
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