COLUMBIA – Today, Palmetto Policy Forum released the report, The #unAffordableCareAct: Why Medicaid Expansion is Bad Medicine for South Carolina. State Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) was on hand to receive the report and welcomed its timeliness to the Senate’s debate on the budget and expansion which is occurring this week.
Dr. Oran Smith, who penned the publication, said, [...]
Palmetto Policy Forum Releases #unAffordableCareAct Report
PPF: Poll Reveals Voter Concerns Over Medicaid Expansion
COLUMBIA – A statewide survey of South Carolina voters commissioned by Palmetto Policy Forum and conducted by Magellan Strategies reveals a divided and doubtful electorate on the issue of expanding Medicaid in South Carolina to include able-bodied adults up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. The survey was conducted April 30–May 1 with 940 likely general election voters and [...]
SC Academic Standing Plummets
In 1998 South Carolina elected an “Education Governor,” Democrat Jim Hodges. In 2000, it approved an “Education Lottery” (ostensibly “for the children”). And over the course of the last decade its “Republican-controlled” S.C. General Assembly has pumped billions of dollars in new money in government schools – all the while fighting tooth and nail against [...]
Jim DeMint Announces Formation Of New SC Think Tank
Columbia, SC – Today, former U.S. Senator and Heritage Foundation President-elect Jim DeMint announced the launch of the Palmetto Policy Forum, an independent, South Carolina-based think tank.
DeMint, who is investing a portion of his remaining campaign funds to help establish the group, will also serve as its Founding Chairman.
Joining him on the Founding Board is [...]
New Think Tank Forming In SC
South Carolina’s marketplace of ideas is about to welcome a new conservative think tank, sources familiar with the entity’s launch tell FITS.
The new organization is called the Palmetto Policy Forum – and it will debut this week with the support of former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, who resigned his seat earlier this year to take [...]
