FREE SHOP Information Sessions, Chester and Lancaster Counties

By / Healthcare, Small Business, Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) /

Small businesses in Chester and Lancaster counties have a special opportunity on January 7, 2015 to hear from an expert on health insurance options available to them and their employees through the federal health insurance marketplace. The sessions are scheduled for: 12:00 p.m. – Native American Studies Center 5:30 p.m. – Chester Downtown Development Association Catherine …

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Good-news stories about Obamacare

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As the Health Insurance Marketplace creeps toward being fully operational and the Obamacare-haters use the technical problems to continue their attacks, the good news is starting to get out. Over 330,000 Americans have checked to see if they are eligible for a federal subsidy to make their health insurance more affordable.  About 700,000 applications for health …

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Health insurance industry targets Charleston’s hospitality workers during Obamacare launch

By / Healthcare, Small Business Advocacy Blog /

Charleston City PaperOctober 9, 2013 by Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins Nick Johnson is a 33-year-old Folly Beach bartender who hasn’t had health insurance since he was 18. He also hasn’t seen the inside of a hospital or a doctor’s office for more than a decade, but two weeks ago he injured his left hand playing baseball …

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Looking for feedback

By / Federal Government, Healthcare, Small Business Advocacy Blog /

With two simultaneous and related events happening yesterday (i.e. the Health Insurance Marketplace rollout and the federal government shutdown), reporters are looking for small business owners with stories to tell about one or the other or both. If your business is being negatively impacted by the government shutdown, I need your story.  How have you …

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WIS-TV special on Health Insurance Marketplace and Obamacare tonight

By / Healthcare, Media, Small Business Advocacy Blog /

On the eve of the rollout of the Health Insurance Marketplace that will allow individuals and small business owners to easily shop for insurance plans, WIS-TV is presenting a one-hour special program on the Affordable Care Act.  This live program from Columbia starts tonight at 7PM and will be about providing information and experts answering questions …

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On October 1st use an insurance professional when shopping in the Marketplace

By / Healthcare, Small Business Advocacy Blog /

Five days until we are supposed to be able to shop in the new Health Insurance Marketplace.  While some states running their own Marketplaces might be having some difficulties in being ready, the Feds who are running the South Carolina Marketplace insist that on October 1st the doors of the online site will be open …

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Let the Obmacare plague begin

By / Healthcare, Politics, Small Business Advocacy Blog /

Recently former South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation, told an audience in Franklin, Tennessee, in reference to Obamacare, “Folks, we can’t allow this plague to come onto the American people.” Today the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study detailing exactly what will happen to the American people when the Obamacare …

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