On July 1, 2010, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) filed a Medicaid state-plan amendment asking the federal government to make Managed Care mandatory for more than 500,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in our state, as well as allowing DHHS to qualify people for Managed Care who are currently ineligible. This state plan [...]
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The Kaiser Family Foundation has updated its health reform subsidy calculator to illustrate how government assistance for insurance premiums could work under the health reform law enacted this year. Beginning in 2014, tax credits will be available for moderate-income people under age 65 who are not covered through their employer, Medicare or Medicaid, and instead [...]
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Whose freedoms are being protected? Lawsuit by 20 states says health care law violates states’ rights By Armand Derfner: Special to the Post & Courier July 11, 2010 Editor’s Note: This is the third in a short, occasional series of guest columns by two local constitutional law experts exploring pertinent issues of the day. Why [...]
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Affordable health insurance for people with pre-existing conditions will now be available to those who successfully enroll in a new high-risk insurance pool starting July 1st. Enrollment will be done through a new portal, http://www.healthcare.gov, which will go on-line that day. One of the features of the health care reform law passed in March was [...]
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Use the Tax Calculator to determine the tax credit you are eligible to receive under the new health care law. Tax Credit Calculator
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Health care reform turned an important political corner. A Gallup poll released yesterday finds that, for the first time in months, more Americans say that the Affordable Care Act is a good thing than think it’s a bad thing. And, though TPM’s PollTracker still finds that, on average, health care reform still has fewer supporters [...]
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WASHINGTON —Despite passage of the landmark health care overhaul this spring, the nation’s health system is continuing to fray, raising the prospect that the country could experience a crisis before the law establishes a health care safety net in 2014. Three months after President Barack Obama signed the law, that unsettling possibility is increasingly casting [...]
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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. [...]
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