By: Savannah Levins, 11 ALIVE, (Watch Now) — State leaders and consumer advocates are warning of scammers pretending to offer free COVID tests. Liz Coyle, executive director of the consumer advocacy group Georgia Watch, said the scammers are preying...
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By Liz Coyle, Guest Columnist (Saporta Report) – More than a year into the pandemic, Georgia is still facing many pressing challenges. The highly contagious Delta variant followed by the Omicron variant, and low vaccination rates across the state...
More infoBorn with half a heart; Georgia child’s healthcare in limbo as hospital, insurer negotiate
By Rachel Polansky, CBS46 (WATCH NOW) – CUMMING, Ga. (CBS46) — The deadline for Northside Hospital System and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to come to an agreement on healthcare and insurance coverage is looming. If they don’t, hundreds of thousands...
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By: Whitney Griggs – Georgians for a Healthy Future – In the spring of this year, Georgians for a Healthy Future, Georgia Watch, and SOWEGA Rising launched a project in Southwest Georgia to address the burden of medical debt. Southwest Georgia...
More infoGeorgia Watch Releases Report on Need for Garnishment Reform
J. Laney’s car was repossessed in 2009—at the time of repossession, she owed $10,000, but she received a letter stating it had been resold and thought that was the end of it. Over a decade later, in 2021, she realized her wages had recently started being...
More infoCommentary: Prioritizing affordable, accessible health care will help Georgia recover and rebuild
by Liz Coyle – More than a year into the pandemic, Georgia is still facing many pressing challenges, especially in the sprawling Atlanta metro and suburban region. The social and economic fallout from the ongoing public health emergency has placed an...
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Atlanta, Georgia — November 10, 2021 – The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, announced today the fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. The...
More infoGeorgia Laws Let Debt Collectors Push Families into Poverty as Pandemic Protections Expire
National Consumer Law Center’s 50-State Review: Georgia Receives an F Rating; Consumer Protections from Debt Collectors Need Major Reform ATLANTA – With millions of families struggling to recover from economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and state...
More infoNuclear Plant Price Doubles to $28.5B as Other Owners Balk
By Jeff Amy, Associated Press – ATLANTA (AP) — The cost of two nuclear reactors being built in Georgia is now $28.5 billion, more than twice the original price tag, and the other owners of Plant Vogtle argue Georgia Power Co. has triggered...
More infoMeet the third parties trying to shape the Vogtle expansion and keep rates low
By Abraham Kenmore – The voices debating when and how much of Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4 expansion costs can be passed along to consumers in the form of electric bills include more than just the Georgia Public Service Commission and...
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by: JoAnn Merrigan SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Georgia Power announced Thursday ‘a revised schedule and cost forecast’ for the Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear expansion project. In other words, the construction of the new reactors is delayed again and there are...
More infoFederal regulators say Atlanta-based Greensky owes millions to customers
By Justin Gray, WSB-TV (Watch Now) – ATLANTA — An Atlanta company that has been at the center of a series of Channel 2 Action News investigations is now being ordered by federal regulators to pay back millions of dollars to customers...
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