‘Father Of PeachCare’: Ga. Rep. Channell Remembered For Work On Health Care Issues

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March 4th, 2019

State Rep. Mickey Channell of Greensboro, shown speaking from the well of the Georgia House in 2007, died last week at age 76. Channell, who represented his district from 1993 to 2015, persuaded his fellow House members to get behind a ‘’PeachCare for Kids’’ program that eventually passed the Georgia Legislature. It has covered roughly 120,000 to 200,000 Georgia children annually.

John Bazemore / Associated Press file

Twenty years ago, a bill arrived in the Georgia House that would have set up a private insurance program for children newly eligible for government coverage.

The legislation had the backing of Gov. Zell Miller, and it had passed the Senate.

Consumer advocate Linda Lowe and others, though, started talking with a member of the House Appropriations Committee about problems in the set-up of the proposed program.

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