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Marking the 10th Anniversary: Leapfrog Group Announces Fall 2022 Hospital Grades for Georgia

November 30, 2022 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0
Marking the 10th Anniversary: Leapfrog Group Announces Fall 2022 Hospital Grades for Georgia

Atlanta, GA, November 30, 2022 – Marking the tenth anniversary of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, the Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization representing the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care...

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Some ‘free COVID testing’ could be a scam designed to steal your identity

December 29, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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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Prioritizing affordable, accessible health care will help Georgia recover, rebuild

December 20, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0
Prioritizing affordable, accessible health care will help Georgia recover, rebuild

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...

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Born with half a heart; Georgia child’s healthcare in limbo as hospital, insurer negotiate

December 14, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0
Born 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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Collecting Community Stories of Medical Debt in Southwest Georgia

December 6, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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...

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Georgia Watch Releases Report on Need for Garnishment Reform

November 12, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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...

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Commentary: Prioritizing affordable, accessible health care will help Georgia recover and rebuild

November 10, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0
Commentary: 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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Georgia’s Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades Announced

November 10, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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...

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Georgia Laws Let Debt Collectors Push Families into Poverty as Pandemic Protections Expire

November 10, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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...

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Nuclear Plant Price Doubles to $28.5B as Other Owners Balk

November 5, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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...

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Meet the third parties trying to shape the Vogtle expansion and keep rates low

September 13, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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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More delays and higher costs for Vogtle nuclear reactors, consumer groups say no surprise

July 30, 2021 by Georgia Watch 0 0 0

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...

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