Health care law encompasses the laws and regulations governing hospital and health care administration, and an understanding of health care insurance is integral to it. There are significant differences in the types and amount of coverage provided by various private insurance policies, such as HMOs, PPOs, disability insurance, and hospital indemnity insurance, just as there are important differences in the cost to the purchasers of health insurance. There are also public health care insurance programs. Elderly and disabled persons may be eligible for coverage through the federal Medicare program. The joint state-federal Medicaid program helps certain individuals, including disabled persons and low-income elderly persons, pay for long-term care and in-home health care.
Clinchfield is an unincorporated community in south-central Houston County, Georgia, United States. It lies near U.S. Route 341 at the junction of Georgia Highway 224. It is part of the Perry, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clinchfield started as a place for the workers of the Penn-Dixie cement plant to live when the plant was constructed in the early 1920s. The cement plant is still in operation today and is currently owned by Cemex, Inc.