New Report Provides County-Specific Breakdown of Tax Credit Eligibility by Income, Age, Race and Ethnicity, Employment Status Press Release: Families USA Washington, D.C.— A report released today says that in 2014 nearly 418,000 South Carolinians will be eligible for premium tax credits that will help them pay for health coverage—a doorway to quality health care […]
Rock Hill HeraldMarch 23, 2013 By Frank Knapp Jr. — Special to The Herald Why do so many of our state’s officials not believe in our free market economy? That is the question I keep asking myself every time a state official dismisses the benefits of expanding Medicaid to low-income South Carolinians by saying that
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Study By Brian Haile Senior Vice President for Health Policy Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. Key Findings States that do not expand Medicaid leave employers exposed to higher “shared responsibility” payments under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The associated costs to employers could total $876 million to $1.3 billion each year in the 22 states
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(Columbia) A new AARP survey of 800 South Carolina residents 45+ shows that almost 70 percent feel that when compared to other government programs, Medicaid is very to extremely important. Moreover, 57 percent of 45 to 64 year-olds surveyed disagree with Gov. Nikki Haley’s refusal to accept federal funds to expand Medicaid in South Carolina.
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S.C. Senate Medical Affairs Affordable Care Act Subcommittee Prepared remarks Frank Knapp Jr. President & CEO, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce ——————————————————————————————— Senators, I want to report a hijacking. Today we are told by Mr. Haislmaier (Heritage Foundation) that the issue of whether South Carolina should expand Medicaid as allowed under the Affordable
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Obamacare haters are on the verge of finally having some success in stopping the implementation of the healthcare reform. If the sequester’s automatic budget cuts go into effect this Friday, federal spending on three of the components of teh Affordable Care Act will be impacted. Less money will be available for establishing the health insurance
February 5, 2013 by The Ruoff Group The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides health policymakers with a robust set of tools to accomplish important changes to both bring costs under control and improve our health and health care. The coverage expansion which ensures affordable access to this new, high performance health care system is integral
With the re-election of President Obama and the Democrats with even more number in the U.S. Senate, all the indications are that the U.S. House will end its two-year effort to “repeal and replace” or simply stop Obamacare. Much of the upcoming battles now will be in the states over whether to expand Medicaid to
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Published November 1, 2012 The Greenville News By Tim Smith, Staff writer COLUMBIA — Another day of stunning revelations brought a disclosure by Gov. Nikki Haley that the hacking of the state’s computer system includes the exposure of the records of as many as 657,000 South Carolina businesses. She also disclosed for the first time that in
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How do we slow down the increasing cost of healthcare? If we can find the answer to this question, we will get future costs of Medicare under control and we can stop all the proposals to end this popular program as we now know it. Buried in the Obamacare statute is a proposal for insurance
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