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Phoebe CEO says state health care reform could raise costs

2/27/2009

Albany -- Changes that could give you more health care options are now the law. Governor Perdue signed a bill Wednesday that changes certificates of need laws. Phoebe Putney says it'll only drive up health care costs in South Georgia.

And Phoebe Putney Hospital CEO Joel Wernick says he's not buying complaints from local industries about high health care costs here.

View this report by Jim Wallace from the April 9, 2008 WALB News.