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Despite Bad Economy, S.C. Makes Progress In Enrolling Kids

November 30, 2011

Press Release: New Analysis Shows State, National Progress in Extending Coverage Columbia – South Carolina made significant progress in reducing the number of uninsured children from 2008 to 2010, according to a new report released by the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center and authored by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children…

Haley’s Panel: No State Health Insurance ‘Exchange’ For S.C.

November 22, 2011

From The Post & Courier: By Renee Dudley [email protected] Friday, November 18, 2011 South Carolina should not manage its own “exchange” where health coverage will be sold once the new federal health care law takes full effect in 2014, a state panel is expected to recommend today. The S.C. Health Planning Committee wants private companies…

18 S.C. Hospitals To See 8% Cuts To Indigent Care Incentives

November 8, 2011

From The Post & Courier: Payment to Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in West Ashley (left) and East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant are among the facilities that will see their payments for providing uncompensated care cut by the state. BY RENEE DUDLEY [email protected] Monday, November 7, 2011 About a third…

S.C. Ignores Federal Aid To Help Uninsured Get Coverage

June 6, 2011

From The Post & Courier: By Renee Dudley [email protected] Saturday, June 4, 2011 . The Haley administration is leaving hundreds of thousands of federal health-care dollars in limbo when the money could be spent right away to help uninsured residents, patient advocates said. For the second time in recent weeks, advocates said consumers are being…

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