Share this
From The Post and Courier: Monday, July 11, 2011–Associated Press COLUMBIA — A panel working on competitiveness issues for South Carolina’s proposed state-run health care exchange is planning to meet. The panel meeting Monday is part of the South Carolina Health Planning Committee that Gov. Nikki Haley established earlier this year. It will…
From The Post and Courier: BY RENEE DUDLEY–Monday, July 11, 2011 The latest round of South Carolina Medicaid cuts, which include reductions in payments to doctors and hospitals, takes effect today. Physician payments for Medicaid, the state- and federally funded health insurance program for the poor and disabled, will be reduced by up to 7…
From Dollars & Sense: By Gerald Friedman America’s broken health-care system suffers from what appear to be two separate problems. From the right, a chorus warns of the dangers of rising costs; we on the left focus on the growing number of people going without health care because they lack adequate insurance. This division of…
From The Washington Post: Witnesses at a hearing on Medicaid legislation in Florida last month By Glenn Kessler– 07/05/2011 “Cash-strapped states are also feeling the burden of the Medicaid entitlement. The program consumes nearly 22 percent of states’ budgets today, and things are about to get a whole lot worse.” — Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah),…
From The New York Times: By GINA KOLATA— July 7, 2011 When poor people are given medical insurance, they not only find regular doctors and see doctors more often but they also feel better, are less depressed and are better able to maintain financial stability, according to a new, large-scale study that provides the first…
From The Washington Post: By Michelle Andrews–July 4 Uninsured sick people got some good news recently, or some of them did, anyway. Starting July 1, the Obama administration reduced the premiums by up to 40 percent in special high-risk insurance plans that the federal government is running in 17 states and the District. These preexisting condition…
From The Spartanburg Herald Journal: “This is going to mean instead of the fox guarding the henhouse, the fox would be designing the henhouse.” -Rep. Harold Mitchell By Stephen Largen [email protected] COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has decided South Carolina won’t pursue any more grant money from the federal health care overhaul to fund a…
From The Post & Courier: Panel’s delay could limit health care options Federally managed insurance marketplace looking likely By Renee Dudley [email protected] Friday, July 1, 2011 COLUMBIA — A panel charged with shaping how South Carolina implements federal health care reform met Thursday but postponed discussion of key decisions — a delay that has some…
- « Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
Share this
Contact Us
Have questions? Send us a private message using the form below.