Nathan Deal is having second thoughts about new health insurance plan | Political Insider blog

Gov. Nathan Deal has spent much of his January trying to neutralize threats to his re-election. His latest involves trying to soothe the unrest over his administration’s controversial decision to go with a single insurer to manage health care for 650,000 public employees and their families.

Deal brushed aside the push by state Superintendent John Barge, one of his GOP challengers, for an investigation into how Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia was awarded the lucrative contract. He called it a hollow “political shot” in an interview Thursday.

But what he said next was more important:

“It’s more important to deal with the problems on hand. We are doing that and we’ll have an announcement very soon about some proposed changes to the state health benefit plan that we think will address some of the concerns that teachers and state employees have experienced.”

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