The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Issac Bailey column
Her political star has risen so high so fast, her name is being bandied about again as a potential vice presidential candidate on the 2016
It's time she smartly led the state through another contentious issue. It would be good for
There's no longer a good reason to deny the billions in federal dollars that come with the expansion. Other red states, and a few Republican leaders in
The final logical argument against
Had the court ruled differently, it would have blown a big hole in the ACA, from which no one was sure it would recover.
Before that ruling, there was a bit of uncertainty about the future of health reform, but no longer. Five yearss into the ACA experiment, the dire predictions from critics have been proven wrong or wildly exaggerated.
Health reform is contributing to a decline in the national deficit, not running it up.
Health care premiums have come in below forecast; they have not skyrocketed.
Roughly 16 million people have gained coverage (and millions more have been helped in other ways) instead of millions losing health care access. Gallup has recorded the lowest rate of uninsured Americans it ever has.
Reform has also translated into an estimated 50,000 lives saved annually, including an estimated 200 a year in
The ACA is far from perfect -- what man-made program, government or otherwise, isn't? -- but early returns have been better than even supporters expected.
Maybe that's why S.C. Sen.
He must know that a study out of the University of
Cleary, a Republican, has co-sponsored the "Financial Responsibility and Opportunity Health Care Program Act," or Healthy South Carolina.
It would allow
Under the ACA, the federal government will pick up at least 90 percent of the cost.
"The economic activity created will more than make enough money to pay for the final 10 percent owed," said
Haley is navigating her way through a highly-charged "third rail" political issue in the aftermath of what happened in
She shouldn't stop there.
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