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.…
Good-news stories about Obamacare
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. …
Health insurance industry targets Charleston’s hospitality workers during Obamacare launch
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…
Looking for feedback
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…
Technology glitches
I spent an hour this morning trying to simply post an event to the online calendar at our daily paper here in Columbia. But the website wouldn’t recognize my account name and password. So I contacted their call center help line and they gave me another call center service help…
WIS-TV special on Health Insurance Marketplace and Obamacare tonight
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…
On October 1st use an insurance professional when shopping in the Marketplace
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…
Let the Obmacare plague begin
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…