New Taxes Imposed by the Federal Health Care Takeover
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is expected to cost trillions and increase the national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars. All in all, taxpayers are looking…
Dr. Jameson’s Taylor’s Senate Judicary Subcommittee Meeting Testimony
I am Dr. Jameson Taylor, Director of Policy with the South Carolina Policy Council. As you may know, the Policy Council is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to safeguarding…
S.C. Medicaid: More Spending, Lower Quality Care on the Horizon
As the Policy Council has previously reported, South Carolina’s Medicaid spending has increased rapidly in recent years. South Carolina already spends more than 20 percent of its total $21 billion…
The Best and Worst to Come: A Review of Health Care Policy for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst health care legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to remerge during the 2010 session. Since…
Why Tort Reform Needs to Be Part of Health Care Reform
Authors: SCPC and Geoff Pallay At the mention of tort reform at any one of the recent health care town halls across the state, crowds cheered with delight. Virtually no…
Managed Care Provides Quality, Affordable Health Care
Authors: SCPC and Ashlee Landess For the past two years, pro-tax legislators in the General Assembly have talked about raising taxes to cover the extraordinary growth in Medicaid. Such measures…
Dose of Healthy Competition Wakes up DMH
Authors: Edward T. McMullen Recent efforts to trim the fat off the sacred cow of state government has produced a strong whiplash by the defiant Department of Mental Health.…
Patient-Centered Medicaid Reform
Authors: SCPC and Neil Mullen Medicaid is the Social Security program providing health care for those with low or limited incomes and special needs. Initially designed in the 1960s, it…
South Carolinas Dilemma: Increase Taxes or Reform Medicaid?
South Carolina is facing a serious crisis in providing funding for healthcare services to low-income persons through its Medicaid program. Clearly policymakers are faced with a critical dilemma either increase…