By John Bailey for the Rome News-Tribune, July 24, 2009
The financial practices of Georgia not-for-profit hospitals, including Floyd Medical Center, are creating a barrier to affordable health care, a consumer advocacy group concludes. The Hospital Accountability Project by Georgia Watch focuses primarily on the affordability of health care for self-pay, underinsured and uninsured patients… Read the rest of this entry »

A film placed —for the moment — out of harm’s way
5:01 pm July 12, 2009, by Jim Galloway

Georgia is on the verge of its very own Michael Moore moment. The question is whether that moment will be allowed to happen… Read the rest of this entry »

ATLANTA – July 15th, Former Public Service Commissioner Angela Speir Phelps became executive director of Georgia Watch, the state’s leading consumer advocacy organization. Policy manager Danny Orrock moves into the organization’s deputy director position… Read the rest of this entry »

**Georgia Watch had no hand in the making of Do No Harm – we were sponsoring a screening of the film that has since been canceled by it’s producers due to unforeseen issues.

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 12, 2009, by Jim Galloway

Georgia is on the verge of its very own Michael Moore moment. The question is whether that moment will be allowed to happen.

In September 2003, fax machines owned by Albany’s business and political elite began spitting out a series of anonymous newsletters that detailed the inner workings of the nonprofit Phoebe Putney Health System — southwest Georgia’s largest hospital group…more