The South Carolina Citizens’ Guide to Following the State Budget
The South Carolina Citizens’ Guide to Following the State Budget
SCPC and The Basitat Society Co-sponsor Event With Reason Magazine
Recently the Policy Council was delighted to sponsor a book signing, round table discussion, and reception featuring Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, longtime editors of Reason Magazine and authors of…
Health Planners Lament “Inevitable” Takeover
The South Carolina Health Care Planning Committee continues to meet, but whether it’s accomplishing anything is open to question.
Writing the State Budget – by the Law
For decades, South Carolina lawmakers have cobbled together the state budget with virtually no input from the governor. The state’s spending priorities were largely dictated by members of the General…
Is a ‘free market health exchange’ a smart policy alternative or contradiction in terms?
When Congress originally passed the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the plan was for the federal government to set up a national “health exchange” – a single government-run “market”…
What Flexibility? Debunking the Myth of the Free-Market Health Exchange
A vast number of new federal healthcare regulations are introduced in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), most of which will be enforced through state or federally run…
What’s Obamacare got to do with car insurance?
In a recent piece on Slate.com, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer calls a pair of South Carolina politicians “hypocritical” for, on the one hand, criticizing Obamacare's individual health insurance…