Health care shakeups are on the way,
according to Andy Miller of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in Georgia.
Each and every year, the safest and most predictable bets in health care are that medical costs will surely rise, individuals will pay much more for their health insurance premiums, and the number of individuals without health coverage will rise.
While the year 2006 may indeed continue those trends it also might bring some much needed changes that will basically mean a fundamental rewrite of Georgia's entire health care system. In fact xperts predict it will be the largest year of change for the state's health industry and it's patients.
Georgia's most dramatic change may come in April, when the state moves some 1,ooo,ooo indivuduals from Medicaid insurance program for the poor and disabled into HMOs. This overhaul will also affect about two hundred thousand kids who have PeachCare.
And some other new and revised programs will affect how many more get health care in Georgia.
The whirlwind of 2006 began with last Sunday's debut of Medicare's biggest revision in its history: offering prescription drug coverage to its beneficiaries.
Many state employees and privately insured workers will also face revisions in their health plans in 2006.
according to Andy Miller of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in Georgia.
Each and every year, the safest and most predictable bets in health care are that medical costs will surely rise, individuals will pay much more for their health insurance premiums, and the number of individuals without health coverage will rise.
While the year 2006 may indeed continue those trends it also might bring some much needed changes that will basically mean a fundamental rewrite of Georgia's entire health care system. In fact xperts predict it will be the largest year of change for the state's health industry and it's patients.
Georgia's most dramatic change may come in April, when the state moves some 1,ooo,ooo indivuduals from Medicaid insurance program for the poor and disabled into HMOs. This overhaul will also affect about two hundred thousand kids who have PeachCare.
And some other new and revised programs will affect how many more get health care in Georgia.
The whirlwind of 2006 began with last Sunday's debut of Medicare's biggest revision in its history: offering prescription drug coverage to its beneficiaries.
Many state employees and privately insured workers will also face revisions in their health plans in 2006.
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