Tag Archives: Cindy Zeldin

Political Notes – Trying to find a winning argument for Medicaid expansion

By Tom Crawford | Published: February 19, 2013

Healthcare advocates try to achieve what may be impossible: persuading the state’s top officials to participate in Medicaid expansion . . .

Tags: Alan Powell , Cindy Zeldin , Cover Georgia , guns on campus , Hank Huckaby , Medicaid expansion , Nathan Deal , Obamacare , Ron Jackson

Deal signs bill restoring children’s health insurance plans

By Tom Crawford | Published: May 1, 2012

Governor signs bill reinstating the issuance of child-only health insurance plans in Georgia . . .

Tags: Alex Atwood , children's health insurance , Cindy Zeldin , Nathan Deal

Political Notes – They still want a tobacco tax increase

By Tom Crawford | Published: January 12, 2012

Healthcare representatives are hoping that the General Assembly will pass an increase in the excise tax on cigarettes . . .

Tags: American Cancer Society , Ben Tarbutton , Cindy Zeldin , Dean Alford , Don Leebern , Eric Bailey , Georgians for a Healthy Future , Nathan Deal , Roger Lane , Ron Stephens , tobacco excise tax

Feds delay healthcare insurance provision in Georgia

By Tom Crawford | Published: November 8, 2011

The Department of Health and Human Services grants a request from Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, will delay the implementation of an 80 percent medical loss ratio for healthcare insurance companies in Georgia . . .

Tags: Cindy Zeldin , healthcare reform act , medical loss ratio , Ralph Hudgens , waiver of 80 percent requirement

Health insurance exchange slowly taking shape

By Tom Crawford | Published: October 27, 2011

Although the tea partiers don’t like it, Georgia is moving ahead with plans to establish a health insurance exchange that is a key provision of the federal healthcare act . . .

Tags: ACA , Cindy Zeldin , Gerry Purcell , health insurance exchange , Healthcare reform , Nathan Deal , Pat Gardner