May 21, 2012, 11:38 pm

Health care costs for poor draining Georgia budget

ATLANTA -- The Deal administration is trying to plug the big money drain in government: health care for the poor, especially the old and disabled.

The program is gobbling up more and more of the state budget, crowding out other state services. The possible savings are estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The elderly only make up 8 percent of the population covered by Medicaid, the program for the poor. Those 8 percent, though, generate 20 percent of the cost. The disabled are another 15 percent of all those covered, but they use 44 percent of the money.

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