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 […]
On June 29, 2009, I and three friends went up the road to Simpsonville, South Carolina, to here Congressman Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) speak at a town hall meeting being held at the Senior Center. Little did we know that we would be witnessing history and the leading edge of Tea Party takeovers of similar events
The elderly…gotta love them Read More »
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 line to call which confirmed
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By J.D. Harrison, The Washington Post Published: September 27 | Updated: Monday, September 30, 6:00 AM Down to the final days of the nation’s current spending plan, with negotiations over a new one at a standstill, nearly half of small business owners are in favor of shutting the government down, according to a new poll. Researchers at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School
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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
WIS-TV special on Health Insurance Marketplace and Obamacare tonight Read More »
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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The Hill’s Congress BlogSeptember 24, 2013 By Frank Knapp Jr. Franchise owners descended on Capitol Hill last week to lobby for a modification in the Affordable Care Act. Their complaint is that under ObamaCare, starting in 2015, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will either have to offer their workers affordable health insurance or
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There is an very important deadline coming up on October 1, 2013, associated with the Affordable Care Act . EVERY BUSINESS WITH AT LEAST ONE EMPLOYEE MUST COMPLY. Fortunately, complying is relatively easy and the forms below will get the job done. Simply put, you as the employer are providing important information to your employees
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“Primary care is very important. Preventative care is very important.” Those were Governor Nikki Haley’s comments last week in regard to a new healthcare pilot project to start next year for the 18,000 employees of the Medical University of South Carolina. Employees will choose from all the primary care doctors of MUSC for their medical
The low-income uninsured are just not worthy Read More »
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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