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ATLANTA - Almost 4,000 evacuees from areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina have applied for Georgia's state-funded health-care programs for the poor, overwhelming social workers and battering a program trying to recover from several years of deep budget cuts.
The Department of Community Health, which oversees the joint federal-state health insurance programs, Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids, said 3,794 refugees in the metro Atlanta area alone had applied for health-care coverage by Thursday afternoon.See the full content of this document
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Health-Care Programs Strained
"We expect that to probably continue to grow," Community Health Commissioner Tim Burgess said. "I can't tell you how big that's going...
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