Governor Nikki Haley

Missed opportunity to fight obesity

The first negative consequence of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley joining fifteen other states in opting out of a state-run health insurance exchange under Obamacare has surfaced. Haley’s Department of Health and Environmental Control has made fighting obesity in South Carolina a number one priority.  The director of the agency has formed a state obesity

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Expanding healthcare to more childen….finally!

Congratulation to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and state Health and Human Services Director Tony Keck.  Their proposal to add an additional $29 million in the Medicaid budget for children’s healthcare appears to be a done deal both in the House and Senate.  This is a dramatic turnaround from the Mark Sanford administration. Back in

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Message to feds–ball’s in your court

So it’s unofficially official. South Carolina will have a health insurance exchange run by the federal government starting January 2014. Yesterday, Governor Haley’s administration re-confirmed that our state would not ask the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for additional money to plan for setting up an insurance exchange. That is the path

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