Georgia health officials to weigh budget cuts

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Georgia health officials to weigh budget cuts

Story Published: Aug 28, 2008 at 9:42 AM EST

Story Updated: Aug 28, 2008 at 9:42 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP)- Medicaid and PeachCare will be on the table as the state board of community health meets to discuss how to cuts its budget.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered state agencies to draw up plans for spending cuts between six and 10 percent as the state's economy
has slowed. Medicaid, the government health program for the poor
and disabled, has been targeted by Perdue for a five percent cut.

Together Peach Care and Medicaid must absorb some $91 million in
cuts.

PeachCare is Georgia's health insurance program for children of the working poor.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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