We wish Rep. John Spratt a speedy recovery from his recent foot surgery and hope he is well enough to hold a public forum on health care reform in the near future. As South Carolina’s longest-serving congressman and chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, Spratt can offer valuable insight into the issue of health [...]
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A Few Questions For Victoria Eslinger SC Appleseed Legal Justice Center asked Ms. Eslinger to talk about her distinguished career, finding the bright wit and keen understand that has help achieve her goals in life. We are privileged to name Victoria L. Eslinger as our Advocate of the Year. Here we share some of her [...]
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By Allan Stalvey Senior vice president, South Carolina Hospital Association Special to S.C. Statehouse Report AUG. 21, 2009 — For years, hospital leaders have been telling policymakers and consumers that the health care system is broken and cannot continue to operate under the status quo much longer. The message has fallen mostly on deaf ears. [...]
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Part 2:Unfunded, inadequate and unambitious As we explained Saturday, the most serious weakness of Sen. Jim DeMint’s “Health Care Freedom Plan” is its lack of strong mechanisms to control out-of-control medical inflation. But within the plan itself, specific elements also have deficiencies of their own. Perhaps the DeMint plan’s most deceptive claim is that it [...]
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Part 1: A Band-Aid is not enough When U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint brought his prescription for a “Health Care Freedom Plan” last week to a restaurant full of area conservatives ailing from an Obamacare overdose, his promises sounded like a free-market cure-all: Tax cuts! Access for everyone! No cost to the taxpayer! And all this [...]
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August 17, 2009 – Jordan Sandler. In Columbia, Rep. Joe Wilson held a town hall meeting at Keenan High School. It was one of four planned meetings scheduled throughout Wilson’s Second Congressional District. Stephanie McPherson-O’Neal was at that town hall meeting. She’s one of the millions of uninsured Americans who’s had to make some tough decisions. [...]
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Recess Update: What you’re not seeing While the confrontations at town hall meetings have captured the attention of the media, what you’re not seeing or hearing about are the dozens of convenings without the shouting matches, or the thousands of activists who are hard at work over the recess educating their communities about the benefits [...]
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Community Catalyst Sponsors Projects Which Stimulate Health Care Reform in South Carolina. Read More
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By FRANK KNAPP JR. Special to the Herald-Journal Sunday, August 9, 2009. As the shape of national health care reform becomes clearer, it is important to revisit some objections leveled against the effort in the past, as the Herald-Journal did in a June 11 editorial. First, the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce believes that [...]
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Greenville event addresses ‘myths, lies’ such as euthanasia rumor by Liv Osby, Health writer. A broad-based coalition of advocacy groups visited Greenville on Thursday to counter what members call misinformation about health-care reform. “We’re doing this to try to dispel some of the myths, distortions and outright lies being presented,” said Jane Wiley, director of South Carolina AARP. [...]
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