http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/24334555/article-Area-teachers-rally-against-Ga--insurance-plan?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column
The wife of a Cherokee County teacher is leading a statewide group
against changes to the state employee health insurance plans that took
effect Wednesday.
Within less than three days of being created,
the group to bring awareness of 2014 changes in insurance for teachers
and other state employees had already surpassed 1,600 members.
The
group, “Teachers Rally Against Georgia Insurance Changes,” or TRAGIC,
was created Thursday morning by Canton resident Ashley Cline, whose
husband is a teacher in Cherokee County.
“I had no idea this
would take off like a train,” Cline said Friday. “It’s spreading across
the state. It started in mostly Cherokee, then we got some people from
Cobb, I saw some from Bartow, we had a woman post last night from south
(Georgia), in Valdosta.”
Cline said the health insurance changes
to the State Health Benefit Plan for 2014, offered to state employees
through the Georgia Department of Community Health, impact all state
employees.
“The changes affects basically all state employees, we
all have the same insurance — if you’re a teacher, or at a public
university system, even retirees. From what I can tell it’s about
650,000 employees and their families,” she said.
Sorry
folks. There is a new sheriff in town and no matter how much you liked
your old plan it is forever gone. Some 650,000 Georgians covered under
the SHBP woke up on January 1, 2014 only to discover they, like millions
of others across the land, have had their health insurance cancelled.
If you liked your health insurance plan and your doctor, get over it. The four year lie now impacts you.
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