Leaders look to business community for $500,000 to fund health care study

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said he hopes the business community will chip in $500,000 to help fund a study of how the city can cut its health care costs. In comments Monday after a meeting of the Atlanta Committee for Progress, Reed compared the effort to find savings in health care with the recent reform of its pension system. But he said he wanted the city to move more quickly in health care than in pensions.

"We're going to study it faster, and we're going to reform faster," he said. "We see an opportunity in the health care space, but we need help to make sure we're right."