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Atlanta Embraces Tenets of Obamacare, Cuts Health Costs by $3.2 Million

By Sy Mukherjee on Sep 18, 2012 at 1:05 pm

For the first time in six years, the city of Atlanta will see its health care costs and city employees’ premiums go down instead of up, to the tune of $3.2 million in savings.

As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, the city’s contributions to health plans for more than 19,000 residents were initially expected to increase by $4.3 million, but new projections show that health costs will actually drop thanks to a new emphasis on preventative care, negotiations between the city and insurance providers, and massive savings in Medicare Advantage plans:

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012...-health-costs/