Reminder! Health Care Implementation Meeting in Florence on Monday!

You’ve heard the scare tactics and lies, now learn how health care changes will promote quality affordable health care in South Carolina join us for our Health Care Implementation Meeting Monday, May 3rd 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. at the Poyner Adult and Community Education Center 301 South Dargan Street Florence, SC 29506 (843) 664-8152 Need [...]

Dont Forget! Health Care Implementation Meeting on Monday In Greenville

We will discuss what initiatives have gone into effect and the process of implementing the rest of the improvements over the next few years. These meetings are open to the public. Please feel free to bring anyone interested in how these improvements will benefit South Carolina. Greenville Monday April 26th, 2010 6:00-7:30 p.m. Hughes Main Library 25 Heritage Green Place

Quick Wins: Who Will Be Helped Right Away By the New Health Care Reform Law?

From our Friends at Community Catalyst National health care reform will have immediate benefits for Americans seeking quality, affordable health care. Focusing on the benefits that these policies will have on real people’s lives will help gain greater support for the new law, and put a human face on the issues that are being resolved. [...]

Summary of Medicaid, CHIP, and Low-Income Provisions in Health Care Reform

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), which is designed (with its companion set of amendments in H.R. 4782) to provide coverage to 32 million uninsured people, adopt broad-reaching reforms in insurance industry practices, make major new investments in public health, and reduce [...]

Key Dates in Reform Implementation

From our Friends at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families Key Health Care Reform Dates for Children & Families 2010 • States must maintain Medicaid/CHIP eligibility levels and enrollment procedures in effect on March 23, 2010 (until 2014, with some exceptions, for adults and 2019 for children). • States can [...]

Great Coverage Of Last Nights Health Care Meeting By ABC Columbia

more about “ABC Columbia Presents Columbia’s Best…“, posted with vodpod

Frank Knapp In The Greenville News

The Greenville News April 10, 2010 Health-care bill will help small businesses By Frank Knapp Jr. In a recent guest column titled “Health-care bill will hurt small businesses,” Mr. J.J. Darby of the South Carolina Chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) questions the qualifications of others who say that the national health-care [...]

Health Care Implementation Meeting Today in Columbia

We will discuss what initiatives have gone into effect and the process of implementing the rest of the improvements over the next few years. These meetings are open to the public. Please feel free to bring anyone interested in how these improvements will benefit South Carolina. Columbia Monday April 12th, 2010 6:00-7:30 p.m. The Vista Room at Suggs & Kelly 500 Taylor St.

Check The Facts

Politicians are entitled to have their own opinions but not their own facts. Want to see who’s telling the truth and who’s spinning it? www.factcheck.org

Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, Bobby Harrell to push repeal of health-care overhaul

By Liv Osby • Health Writer • April 1, 2010 U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint have joined South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell in calling for repeal of the new federal health reform law, saying its Medicaid expansion will cost the state too much. The law permits anyone at 133 percent of the [...]

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