Welfare Watch -  August 25, 2011 - Georgia Considers Health Exchanges 

From Georgians for a Healthy Future - Throughout the summer, the Governor’s Health Insurance Advisory Committee has been meeting regularly to study whether Georgia should develop a health insurance exchange. Earlier this week, the committee voted to recommend legislation for a Georgia exchange in 2012 and will now begin exploring design options. The insurance industry is heavily represented on the committee, and Georgians for a Healthy Future is the only true voice for patients and consumers on the committee. As this process unfolds, we need your voice to build support for an exchange that will work for all of Georgia’s health care consumers and not one that will work just for insurance companies.
 
Authorized by the Affordable Care Act,  health insurance exchanges are state-level competitive health insurance marketplaces that hold the potential to transform our broken health insurance system into one that is transparent, competitive, and that provides consumers with the information, tools, and access to tax credits that can make health insurance more understandable and affordable. But only if we get it right. And we need your help to accomplish that. Here is what you can do:
  
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