{"id":3439,"date":"2013-04-11T23:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T04:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2013-04-11T23:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T04:12:28","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Hoyt Wheeler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medicaid Expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that Gov. Haley came up with a program called \u201cNikkicare\u201d that would create 44,000 new jobs, provide health insurance for 250,000 of the poorest South Carolinians, cut health insurance premiums for citizens who have insurance, make up for the $2.6 billion in cuts in funding that are coming to SC hospitals, and keep small employers from facing fines for failing to provide health insurance for their employees? Doesn\u2019t that sound great?<\/p>\n<p>But there must be a catch, right?\u00a0 This is bound to be costly to SC taxpayers, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Guess again.\u00a0 This program would cost us nothing for the first three years and gradually go to 10% being paid for by us after that.\u00a0 In addition, the economic impact of this flood of Federal dollars would pretty well cover all the costs in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone think that the SC Legislature would pass up the chance to have such a program?<\/p>\n<p>But it may.\u00a0 Not because it\u2019s not a great program, but because it has a different label, \u201cMedicaid Expansion\u201d under \u201cObamacare.\u201d\u00a0 Our only hope is that the Republicans who control the Legislature will do the right thing in spite of labels and ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hoyt Wheeler Medicaid Expansion. Imagine that Gov. Haley came up with a program called \u201cNikkicare\u201d that would create 44,000 new jobs, provide health insurance for 250,000 of the poorest South Carolinians, cut health insurance premiums for citizens who have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/whats-in-a-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}