...patient-advocacy groups are glad that the provider cut was restored because we're always concerned about access," said Linda Lowe, a lobbyist for several advocacy groups.Doctors often stop taking new patients when reimbursement rates make treating...

...cuts and still function. "They keep saying we won't close hospitals or prisons," said consumer-health advocate Linda Lowe, alluding to a promise Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue made during a speech this month. "I'd also like to hear people...

...to make sure the premiums don't become a barrier," Linda Lowe, a lobbyist for the nonprofit group Families First...to make sure the premiums don't become a barrier," Linda Lowe, a lobbyist for the nonprofit group Families First...

...What it requires is the will to fix it and the will to do it without hurting children," consumer health advocate Linda Lowe said. House Appropriations Chairman Rep. Ben Harbin, R-Evans, has said his committee is looking at ways the state...

...This legislation would protect the insurance companies from consumers, and it ought to be the other way around," said Linda Lowe, a consumer health care activist. Even a lawmaker who has filed similar legislation in the past worries it could take...

...reimbursement rates are too low, the audit says. "Access to dental care is a very difficult problem in this state," said Linda Lowe, a health care advocate for the poor. "Very few people recognize how many medical problems are due to (poor) dental...

...this risk, the CMOs have every incentive to discourage and address inappropriate emergency department utilization." Linda Lowe, a veteran lobbyist for several health-advocacy groups, agrees that the idea of intensive case management can save...

...employees, a problem it proposes to fix through a combination of higher employee premiums and restrictions on care. Linda Lowe, one of the state's most outspoken consumer health advocates, says the cuts are wrong and shortsighted. "We've...

...employees, a problem it proposes to fix through a combination of higher employee premiums and restrictions on care. Linda Lowe, one of the state's most outspoken consumer health advocates, says the cuts are wrong and shortsighted. "We've...

...of these people are pregnant women, infants and women who are receiving breast and cervical cancer treatment," said Linda Lowe, a consumer-health advocate. "Hospitals are still going to have to treat them. Everybody is going to be worse off...