By today all health insurance companies were to have notified individual policy holders and small businesses about premium refunds or credits they were due thanks to Obamacare. In my July 18th blog I talked about these refunds and how they could finally demonstrate to the public that healthcare reform was working to make health insurance […]
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Thursday, Jul 26, 2012 The S.C. director of the National Federation of Independent Business continues his organization’s misleading information campaign about the new health-care law (“Replace health law with reforms that work,” Friday). As the president and CEO of the 5,000-member S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the 150,000-member American Sustainable
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The StateJuly 24, 2012 Insurer violated new health care law in spending on claims BY STEPHEN LARGEN The (Charleston) Post and Courier South Carolina’s largest health insurer has begun sending out rebate checks to some policyholders because it failed to meet a requirement of the federal health care overhaul. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South
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Here is a warning. If you run into Pat Hancock in the Hilton Head Island area of South Carolina, don’t say anything bad about Obamacare–she’ll take your head off. As far as she’s concerned the Prez just sent her a check for $405. That was the amount of the refund her health insurance company sent
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For years the National Federation of Independent Business has been the darling of the media. The NFIB had successfully sold the story that they represented small businesses. The organization had the money to get in front of the national press and reporters were happy to have an easy “go-to” group on small business issues. All
The U.S. House is scheduled to take their 31stvote on changing, delaying, defunding or terminating Obamacare today. The outcome of today’s repeal vote isn’t in questions because every other vote taken on the issue has passed almost exclusively along party lines. Obamacare opponents in the House will again claim that the healthcare reform is hurting
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Published on June 29, 2012 By Frank Knapp, Jr., President and CEO of South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce | The Hill I received a call from a gentleman, Ralph, this morning asking about my statement to the press yesterday regarding the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare. He wanted to know why I thought
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WACH Fox News June 28, 2012 COLUMBIA (WACH, AP) – The Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the individual insurance requirement of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act has South Carolina leaders torn. After the announcement of the highest court’s decision Thursday morning, state leaders began sharing their responses to the health care law. While some
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Charleston Regional Business Journal By Chuck Crumbo Published June 28, 2012 Major health insurance carriers operating in South Carolina took the Supreme Court’s ruling on the federal health care law in stride, saying they will press on with implementing the measure’s requirements and do what they can to give their customers peace of mind. Reaction
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Published: June 28, 2012 By Staff Reports — The Herald South Carolina political and business leaders released statements today after the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the President’s Health Care Law. Congressman Mick Mulvaney: “I am disappointed to see the Supreme Court has upheld the provisions of Obamacare. This is truly a sad
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