COLUMBIA, S.C. – State Sen. Katrina Shealy and Fred Price owner of Ace Glass Company Inc. will discuss the impact of rising health insurance premiums on small businesses amid Obamacare’s expansion at Ace Glass Co. Inc. on Tuesday, August 13, at 10:00 AM.
WHO: State Sen. Katrina Shealy and Fred Price
WHAT: Obamacare small business impact press conference
WHEN: Tuesday, August 13, 10:00 AM
WHERE: Ace Glass Co. Inc., 5506 Two Notch Road, Columbia, S.C. 29223
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Maybe they can also discuss the impact of THIS NEW, AFFORDABLE health care for people (a) whose employers don’t offer it, and (b) self-employed people whose “pre-existing conditions” like hereditary high blood pressure allow insurance companies to “carve out” and not insure those people for that condition plus heart attack, arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy, stroke, diabetes, etc.
Morelli Heating & Air Conditioning Company in Charleston has been running a scam on its mechanics to keep “full time employees” eligible for company insurance to a minimum: Just days before new employees reach the anniversary date on which they would be eligible for company health or unemployment insurance, they are terminated. Morelli runs constant newspaper employment advertisements in order to fill the vacancies it creates with this impersonal and harmful policy.
Anything in the world to put the screws to the poor workers out there in the heat. I presume Sen. Shealy and Mr. Price work in air-conditioned comfort.
Maybe they can also discuss the impact of THIS NEW, AFFORDABLE health care for people (a) whose employers don’t offer it, and (b) self-employed people whose “pre-existing conditions” like hereditary high blood pressure allow insurance companies to “carve out” and not insure those people for that condition plus heart attack, arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy, stroke, diabetes, etc.
Morelli Heating & Air Conditioning Company in Charleston has been running a scam on its mechanics to keep “full time employees” eligible for company insurance to a minimum: Just days before new employees reach the anniversary date on which they would be eligible for company health or unemployment insurance, they are terminated. Morelli runs constant newspaper employment advertisements in order to fill the vacancies it creates with this impersonal and harmful policy.
Anything in the world to put the screws to the poor workers out there in the heat. I presume Sen. Shealy and Mr. Price work in air-conditioned comfort.
If they don’t like it, then suggest something else.
Just don’t yell at the walls and complain about high health care costs, and offer no solutions just No, No, No.
Then bitch about it, when somebody else tries to do something about it.
Everybody knows health care costs are out of control in SC and the entire USA.
The Stupidity of it is all over South Carolina and Columbia in particular. Building luxury hotel hospitals in Irmo that don’t even offer emergency Trauma care. Where we already have multiple tax payer funded hospitals already covering the existing areas. Offering high cost duplicate specialties, while not offering the other lower value disease covering services crucial to the health care of the community.
So, unless you have better ideas, and voice them with facts then:
SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!
And we taxpayers now subsidize THREE medical universities:
Medical University of SC, Charleston:
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/musc/
$663 million, http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/appropriations2013/tas23.htm
USC School of Medicine, Columbia:
http://www.med.sc.edu/
$31 million, http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/appropriations2013/tas20A.htm
USC School of Medicine, Greenville:
http://greenvillemed.sc.edu/
$114 million, http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/appropriations2013/tas20A.htm
I challenge Shealy and Price to justify this wasteful, duplicate spending of $31 million + $114 million = $145 million annually on medical education — our money.
Or is that politically untenable there in the Lexington / Columbia area?
Hypocrites.
Or your employer, pick your poison!!
End the subsidy now! I always wondered who paid for MUSC Office of Diversity…what a waste of taxpayer’s money! I agree Les Mez!
Don’t forget the bribes Trickey Nickey took to get a 3rd unnecessary heart hospital at Lexington Hospital. Our taxpayer money funding a new poor untrained facility for the benefit of the doctors and hospitals pockets.
They have plenty of money for wasteful duplication. But, when it comes to critical Trauma Car: OOHHH, that’s too expensive!! Thus, when time really does count, we only have one hospital with Trauma Car, Richland Memorial. And, it’s downtown, hours away from those who really need emergency care.
If they don’t like it, then suggest something else.
Just don’t yell at the walls and complain about high health care costs, and offer no solutions just No, No, No.
Then bitch about it, when somebody else tries to do something about it.
Everybody knows health care costs are out of control in SC and the entire USA.
The Stupidity of it is all over South Carolina and Columbia in particular. Building luxury hotel hospitals in Irmo that don’t even offer emergency Trauma care. Where we already have multiple tax payer funded hospitals already covering the existing areas. Offering high cost duplicate specialties, while not offering the other lower value disease covering services crucial to the health care of the community.
So, unless you have better ideas, and voice them with facts then:
SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!
And we taxpayers now subsidize THREE medical universities:
Medical University of SC, Charleston:
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/musc/
$663 million, http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/appropriations2013/tas23.htm
USC School of Medicine, Columbia:
http://www.med.sc.edu/
$31 million, http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/appropriations2013/tas20A.htm
USC School of Medicine, Greenville:
http://greenvillemed.sc.edu/
$114 million, http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/appropriations2013/tas20A.htm
I challenge Shealy and Price to justify this wasteful, duplicate spending of $31 million + $114 million = $145 million annually on medical education — our money.
Or is that politically untenable there in the Lexington / Columbia area?
Hypocrites.
Or your employer, pick your poison!!
End the subsidy now! I always wondered who paid for MUSC Office of Diversity…what a waste of taxpayer’s money! I agree Les Mez!
Don’t forget the bribes Trickey Nickey took to get a 3rd unnecessary heart hospital at Lexington Hospital. Our taxpayer money funding a new poor untrained facility for the benefit of the doctors and hospitals pockets.
They have plenty of money for wasteful duplication. But, when it comes to critical Trauma Car: OOHHH, that’s too expensive!! Thus, when time really does count, we only have one hospital with Trauma Car, Richland Memorial. And, it’s downtown, hours away from those who really need emergency care.
Tom Davis says that expanding Medicaid would swell the rolls by 600,000. These are working people. They work everyday but because they live in a state that actively suppresses their wages they exist in poverty. Working poor without healthcare. Tom Davis and Nikki Haley have no interest in these folks. They exist without political representation. Neither Tom Davis nor Nikki Haley have put forth a meaningful plan to deal with the insurance gap.
Tom Davis says that expanding Medicaid would swell the rolls by 600,000. These are working people. They work everyday but because they live in a state that actively suppresses their wages they exist in poverty. Working poor without healthcare. Tom Davis and Nikki Haley have no interest in these folks. They exist without political representation. Neither Tom Davis nor Nikki Haley have put forth a meaningful plan to deal with the insurance gap.
What’s the GOP’s plan to address health care costs? Oh yeah … “Let’em die.”
Uhh , actually the repubs offered several plans…all shot down by them lyin’ dems…but I’m sure you know that…
Several Republicans are on record stating that high risk pools adequately cover the “uninsurable” (aka unprofitable) masses. Most of what the GOP talks about is tort reform (has not significantly helped in states that passed it) and tearing down state boundaries for health insurance companies (which with little regulation would be a nightmare for consumers). That is if we ignore that Obamacare is based off of Romneycare, the mandate was a Republican idea touted once by Newt Gingrich, and that the Heritage Foundation once supported pieces of Obamacare. Oh, and the $700 billion in Medicare reductions that Paul Ryan wanted, but attacked Obama for.
Wake up and smell the coffee bro, the GOP wants repeal (40 times now) with no replacement. They want Obama to fail even if it requires sabotage. The fact that they want to voucherize Medicare should tell anyone with a brain that their goal is not nor will it ever be to increase coverage or access, but to guarantee excellent coverage for the haves, and shoveling the have-nots to the curb to die.
Congressional republicans are obstructionists, concede nothing, stonewall, and offer no alternatives except the word “No.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s democrat opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes, ridiculed him Aug. 3rd with this doozie:
“If his doctors told Sen. McConnell that he had a kidney stone, he’d refuse to pass it.”
I wish the GOP would put some energy into repealing the Patriot Act, rather than trying to sabotage people’s chances of getting more affordable health care.
A laughable plan of tax credits for those they claim pay no taxes. You call that a plan?
It’s called Obamacare, thought up by the Heritage Foundation.
What’s the GOP’s plan to address health care costs? Oh yeah … “Let’em die.”
Uhh , actually the repubs offered several plans…all shot down by them lyin’ dems…but I’m sure you know that…
Several Republicans are on record stating that high risk pools adequately cover the “uninsurable” (aka unprofitable) masses. Most of what the GOP talks about is tort reform (has not significantly helped in states that passed it) and tearing down state boundaries for health insurance companies (which with little regulation would be a nightmare for consumers). That is if we ignore that Obamacare is based off of Romneycare, the mandate was a Republican idea touted once by Newt Gingrich, and that the Heritage Foundation once supported pieces of Obamacare. Oh, and the $700 billion in Medicare reductions that Paul Ryan wanted, but attacked Obama for.
Wake up and smell the coffee bro, the GOP wants repeal (40 times now) with no replacement. They want Obama to fail even if it requires sabotage. The fact that they want to voucherize Medicare should tell anyone with a brain that their goal is not nor will it ever be to increase coverage or access, but to guarantee excellent coverage for the haves, and shoveling the have-nots to the curb to die.
Congressional republicans are obstructionists, concede nothing, stonewall, and offer no alternatives except the word “No.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s democrat opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes, ridiculed him Aug. 3rd with this doozie:
“If his doctors told Sen. McConnell that he had a kidney stone, he’d refuse to pass it.”
I wish the GOP would put some energy into repealing the Patriot Act, rather than trying to sabotage people’s chances of getting more affordable health care.
A laughable plan of tax credits for those they claim pay no taxes. You call that a plan?
It’s called Obamacare, thought up by the Heritage Foundation.
I hope all doctors opposed to Obamacare protest by taking the first week of January off…in 2014…then maybe Congress might re-consider…BTW the AMA is a progressively liberal medical group that represents only less than 20% of physicians…a very small minority of docs…but the media conceal such realities from the masses…
I hope they do too. Will never happen, they are too greedy. Why do think your Doc schedules 12 – 15 patients per hour? It’s not because its in your best interest!!
A good friend — a pediatric gastroenterologist — came to MUSC from Johns Hopkins decades ago and objected to “quickie rounds” with patients and pressure from MUSC to see 20 patients daily. You know, for the cash flow. He considered it poor patient care and unethical medicine.
He was “written up” by various supervisors for intransigence, lack of cooperation, and obstructing “the mission” of the department — all of which went into his personnel file.
Ultimately he quit MUSC and opened his own practice where he spends more and quality time with his (child) patients and their (upset) parents. He doesn’t make the $325,000 average salary of MUSC GI doctors but sleeps at night knowing he isn’t sacrificing his patients on the altar of MUSC’s income statement.
As far as I’m concerned, the MUSC heavy roller doctors drawing those salaries can go fuck themselves. Let them search the world to match that sort of dough. We consumers have been getting raped by this system long enough.
I hope all doctors opposed to Obamacare protest by taking the first week of January off…in 2014…then maybe Congress might re-consider…BTW the AMA is a progressively liberal medical group that represents only less than 20% of physicians…a very small minority of docs…but the media conceal such realities from the masses…
I hope they do too. Will never happen, they are too greedy. Why do think your Doc schedules 12 – 15 patients per hour? It’s not because its in your best interest!!
A good friend — a pediatric gastroenterologist — came to MUSC from Johns Hopkins decades ago and objected to “quickie rounds” with patients and pressure from MUSC to see 20 patients daily. You know, for the cash flow. He considered it poor patient care and unethical medicine.
He was “written up” by various supervisors for intransigence, lack of cooperation, and obstructing “the mission” of the department — all of which went into his personnel file.
Ultimately he quit MUSC and opened his own practice where he spends more and quality time with his (child) patients and their (upset) parents. He doesn’t make the $325,000 average salary of MUSC GI doctors but sleeps at night knowing he isn’t sacrificing his patients on the altar of MUSC’s income statement.
As far as I’m concerned, the MUSC heavy roller doctors drawing those salaries can go fuck themselves. Let them search the world to match that sort of dough. We consumers have been getting raped by this system long enough.
Obamacare will increase health costs, lower the quality of care, and increase government bureaucracy while eroding personal liberties…I suspect many docs will retire and reliance on midlevels will expand. Most patients will see a midlevel PA or NP supervised remotely by a MD employing telemedicine. Achievers who have traditionally aspired to pursue a medical career will be dismayed by the mountains of additional paperwork and mind-numbing bureaucracy …not to mention the projected decrease in financial compensation…it’s this brain drain which to me poses the greatest concern for the future of our medical system…
Repub talking points. No facts, no data, no references. Blah blah blah. Here’s a number for you. 30,000,000 uninsured.
Where the fuck do you get this shit??
You’ve been reading too much George Orwell, friend. Go take a walk, drink cold water, get some exercise, clear your head.
Beaufort Memorial just advertised for 3 Ob/Gyn positions. They received 20 replies the first day. So much for your predictions of doctors becoming auto mechanics.
Replace “government bureaucracy” with “insurance company bureaucracy” and realize that all the other negatives you cite have been happening for the past 20 years!
Obamacare will increase health costs, lower the quality of care, and increase government bureaucracy while eroding personal liberties…I suspect many docs will retire and reliance on midlevels will expand. Most patients will see a midlevel PA or NP supervised remotely by a MD employing telemedicine. Achievers who have traditionally aspired to pursue a medical career will be dismayed by the mountains of additional paperwork and mind-numbing bureaucracy …not to mention the projected decrease in financial compensation…it’s this brain drain which to me poses the greatest concern for the future of our medical system…
Repub talking points. No facts, no data, no references. Blah blah blah. Here’s a number for you. 30,000,000 uninsured.
Where the fuck do you get this shit??
You’ve been reading too much George Orwell, friend. Go take a walk, drink cold water, get some exercise, clear your head.
Beaufort Memorial just advertised for 3 Ob/Gyn positions. They received 20 replies the first day. So much for your predictions of doctors becoming auto mechanics.
Replace “government bureaucracy” with “insurance company bureaucracy” and realize that all the other negatives you cite have been happening for the past 20 years!
Hey Katrina, you can always be like Trikki Nikki’s Walmart and have the government provide health care rather than paying a living wage with benefits!!
Your choice!!
Hey Katrina, you can always be like Trikki Nikki’s Walmart and have the government provide health care rather than paying a living wage with benefits!!
Your choice!!
Real-world
real politics, bravo Katrina
and Fred!
Real-world
real politics, bravo Katrina
and Fred!
People really think we have a good healthcare system? We have a “sick care” system and its not for everyone.
People really think we have a good healthcare system? We have a “sick care” system and its not for everyone.
Generally I find a number of you guys fairly intelligent but I read this tripe posted here about how Republicans want to do bad to people and make the rich richer and I realize that you are some of the dumbest smart people I know. Well, you wanted it you got it. I think it telling though that even some of the architects of 0bamaCare are running from it, even its namesake is trying to postpone it until after the elections because he knows the negative affects it will have on voters and wishes to delay the consequences of that. Republicans have proposed solutions but Democrats act like they want to kill people even though it’s the Democrats health care legislation that will make death panels a reality (after calling Sarah Palin a liar for bringing this to light). Doctors are dropping out of Medicare and Medicaid and hospitals are requiring people to pay up front for emergency room visits.
The main thing to do to bring health care costs to heal would be to get the government out of health care and this stupid legislation hands health care to the government on a silver platter with garnish. Ever try to read all the rules and regulations for the health care field. It would take hours just to download the legislation, rules and regulations just for South Carolina, I tried once. If you try to read the rules and regulations you, at least I did, see what a minefield for doctors and a goldmine for lawyers this all is. This whole thing with the “Certificate of Need” is a bunch of crap. If you and I have a couple hundred million bucks to toss around and we want to build a hospital we should be able to. We would have to follow some common sense regulations but we shouldn’t have to go through all the rent seeking hoops that the politicians have erected to protect their buddies in the hospital industry.
The ensuing years will see innumerable “fixes” and “patches” and “tweaks” to this garbage legislation and the situation for those “poor uninsured” will not improve and a decade from now people will be wondering what were these idiots thinking when this garbage was passed.
The SC legislature and Gov have insured the plight of the working poor by failing to expand Medicaid. By doing so they’ve negated the rules for mandatory coverage. This insures a smaller more expensive health insurance market. I have no personal interest in Medicaid but loss of the expanded market will affect prices for coverage.
You say “Republicans have proposed solutions but Democrats act like they want to kill people . . . ”
Sorry, you have that totally backwards. Republicans did offer a number of ideas (See Mitt Romney’s plan in Mass.) but as soon as Obama embraced them, they disavowed them and pretended they were all Obama’s bad ideas. Since then they have not offered any solutions. From Romney’s “repeal and replace, but I will tell you what I want to replace it with after I am elected” to Ron Paul’s “let them die.” Republicans have been devoid of solution other than let the free market decide who gets health care.
Oh, and I don’t think most people believe Republicans have a desire to kill poor people. We just think they don’t care whether they die or not.
The bottom line is this. Right now, the US healthcare system
sucks. We are paying more for healthcare than any nation on earth and we are getting worse health care results, than almost every other first world country. And before we hear about this Sheik or that billionaire flying to the US for health care, you don’t judge a health care system by the way it treats rich people. You judge it by results. How long does the average citizen live, what is the infant mortality rate, how healthy is the average person.
The truth about our system is that before the enactment of
Medicare Part D, during the Bush administration, more Americans went to Canada for a portion of their health care than Canadians came to the US for a portion of their health care. It took a government program to prevent that from happening and in fact that is exactly why Bush pushed for Medicare Part D. American pharmaceutical companies were sick and tired of Americans going to Canada for health care.
Free market health care has never brought health care to the masses. No
civilized nation on earth has assumed it would. The reason we enacted Medicare in the first place is because old, sick people could not get health insurance and over 50% of people over the age of 65 were uninsured. Where was the free market for them?
As far as “you wanted it you got it”, that is BS. We got the best we could get with Republican obstructionism. We could have gotten a lot better. The US health care system is the best in the world at one thing; making Doctors, for profit Hospital owners, and insurance companies rich. Beyond that it very expensive for mediocre.results. Of course I guess Republicans would say, what’s wrong with profit?
Generally I find a number of you guys fairly intelligent but I read this tripe posted here about how Republicans want to do bad to people and make the rich richer and I realize that you are some of the dumbest smart people I know. Well, you wanted it you got it. I think it telling though that even some of the architects of 0bamaCare are running from it, even its namesake is trying to postpone it until after the elections because he knows the negative affects it will have on voters and wishes to delay the consequences of that. Republicans have proposed solutions but Democrats act like they want to kill people even though it’s the Democrats health care legislation that will make death panels a reality (after calling Sarah Palin a liar for bringing this to light). Doctors are dropping out of Medicare and Medicaid and hospitals are requiring people to pay up front for emergency room visits.
The main thing to do to bring health care costs to heal would be to get the government out of health care and this stupid legislation hands health care to the government on a silver platter with garnish. Ever try to read all the rules and regulations for the health care field. It would take hours just to download the legislation, rules and regulations just for South Carolina, I tried once. If you try to read the rules and regulations you, at least I did, see what a minefield for doctors and a goldmine for lawyers this all is. This whole thing with the “Certificate of Need” is a bunch of crap. If you and I have a couple hundred million bucks to toss around and we want to build a hospital we should be able to. We would have to follow some common sense regulations but we shouldn’t have to go through all the rent seeking hoops that the politicians have erected to protect their buddies in the hospital industry.
The ensuing years will see innumerable “fixes” and “patches” and “tweaks” to this garbage legislation and the situation for those “poor uninsured” will not improve and a decade from now people will be wondering what were these idiots thinking when this garbage was passed.
The SC legislature and Gov have insured the plight of the working poor by failing to expand Medicaid. By doing so they’ve negated the rules for mandatory coverage. This insures a smaller more expensive health insurance market. I have no personal interest in Medicaid but loss of the expanded market will affect prices for coverage.
You say “Republicans have proposed solutions but Democrats act like they want to kill people . . . ”
Sorry, you have that totally backwards. Republicans did offer a number of ideas (See Mitt Romney’s plan in Mass.) but as soon as Obama embraced them, they disavowed them and pretended they were all Obama’s bad ideas. Since then they have not offered any solutions. From Romney’s “repeal and replace, but I will tell you what I want to replace it with after I am elected” to Ron Paul’s “let them die.” Republicans have been devoid of solution other than let the free market decide who gets health care.
Oh, and I don’t think most people believe Republicans have a desire to kill poor people. We just think they don’t care whether they die or not.
The bottom line is this. Right now, the US healthcare system
sucks. We are paying more for healthcare than any nation on earth and we are getting worse health care results, than almost every other first world country. And before we hear about this Sheik or that billionaire flying to the US for health care, you don’t judge a health care system by the way it treats rich people. You judge it by results. How long does the average citizen live, what is the infant mortality rate, how healthy is the average person.
The truth about our system is that before the enactment of
Medicare Part D, during the Bush administration, more Americans went to Canada for a portion of their health care than Canadians came to the US for a portion of their health care. It took a government program to prevent that from happening and in fact that is exactly why Bush pushed for Medicare Part D. American pharmaceutical companies were sick and tired of Americans going to Canada for health care.
Free market health care has never brought health care to the masses. No
civilized nation on earth has assumed it would. The reason we enacted Medicare in the first place is because old, sick people could not get health insurance and over 50% of people over the age of 65 were uninsured. Where was the free market for them?
As far as “you wanted it you got it”, that is BS. We got the best we could get with Republican obstructionism. We could have gotten a lot better. The US health care system is the best in the world at one thing; making Doctors, for profit Hospital owners, and insurance companies rich. Beyond that it very expensive for mediocre.results. Of course I guess Republicans would say, what’s wrong with profit?