The South Carolina House and Senate started the new legislative session yesterday. For those who have not experienced the occasion it’s similar to the first day back at school in the fall. Everybody is friendly and happy to see each other. All were in a positive mood except for the small crowd in front of […]
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Washington Post By N.C. Aizenman, Published: December 13 Republicans frequently denounce the health-care law as a dangerous overreach of federal power. But now Washington’s role is expanding, and some conservatives charge that Republicans have only themselves to blame. The vast majority of Republican-led states, faced with a Friday deadline to submit plans for running the insurance exchanges
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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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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It’s been a long, lonely slog. After Obamacare was passed by Congress back in March of 2010, the blistering attacks have been relentless. As a result public opinion of the national health care reform, that was never very high, tanked. Obamacare was demonized as a government take-over of healthcare that would put bureaucrats between you
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At the recent Republican National Convention South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley took the stage. “Sadly, the hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government, this administration and this president,” she said. But a story in today’s Charleston Post & Courier clearly shows that the hardest part of the Governor’s job is convincing
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EditorialThe New York TimesSeptember 13, 2012 The number of Americans who lack health insurance declined last year, the first drop since 2007. This is, in large part, the result of the health care reform law and better coverage under public programs like Medicaid. This also shows why repealing the health care law or revamping and
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It is satisfying to know that persistence in correcting false information pays off. One of the on-going lies about Obamacare is that it imposes a tax on small businesses. This lie has been told over and over by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) that has taken millions of dollars from GOP-related organizations in
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New York Times August 22, 2012 By Jackie Calmes Mitt Romney’s promise to restore $716 billion that he says President Obama “robbed” from Medicare has some health care experts puzzled, and not just because his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, included the same savings in his House budgets. The 2010 health care lawcut Medicare
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Last month the new director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) stirred up the debate on healthcare in the Palmetto State. Catherine Templeton said that she had a “hallelujah moment” in talking with health experts when she realized that obesity was an important contributor to numerous health problems like heart
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