Haley on HealthCare: Part One

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Haley on HealthCare: Part One

 

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary) | February 11th, 2013 at 10:30 AM

Now that Barack Obama has been sworn in for a second term, the focus will again turn to ObamaCare and health care exchanges. A key component of ObamaCare, health care exchanges are to be set up by the states giving consumers a limited amount of options to purchase health care in their state. Those that traditionally cannot afford to purchase health care will be given tax credits. Additionally, the federal government will also help cover co-pays and deductibles that aren’t covered by insurance. New taxes and a large fine for not having any health care coverage will allegedly be used to pay for the enormously expensive plan. In their continued efforts to protect their individual states from the ever-increasing interference of the federal government, governors across the nation have fought back against the Obamacare health care exchange mandate.

 

In South Carolina, Governor Nikki Haley is one of 20 governors who have refused to set up state exchanges. Featured by Forbes, Haley seeks to focus on reforming the state’s established health care system; as opposed to the Obama administration’s plan to simply take it over. Haley explained her position recently in her State of the State address:

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Sounds like they will not accept any exchanges. Not sure how they will get away with that.

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Haley on HealthCare: Part Two

 

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary) | February 12th, 2013 at 02:00 PM

Previously, I covered the first portion of my interview with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. In the next part of our discussion, Governor Haley relayed the efforts by South Carolina to improve health care in the state.

 

“We are taking the lead in the country on payment reform. We had $40 million alone in payments and we tied it to performance. Which meant that we have to actually produce better health, but more than that, we’re getting our Medicaid beneficiaries to be more engaged in their health.”

 

Like many government programs, follow up, or the lack thereof has been a factor in producing positive results.

 

“If a doctor tells you to stop smoking and you don’t, we can’t continue to work with you. If a doctor tells you to take prescriptions and you don’t, we can’t continue to work with you. So to try and improve that patient engagement, to get them to care or else they will lose their benefits and to get us a better quality outcome will be an amazing improvement for healthcare. Then all of a sudden we’ve gone from talking about cost to talking about outcome…our focus is, is what can we do in terms of measurables? How do we go about doing that and what do we have to show for it?

 

I asked Governor Haley to clarify her point on what exactly the state could do should a patient not follow their doctor’s directions.

“Well what we’ve already done is, like I said,

 

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Haley on Healthcare: Part Three

 

 

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary) | February 15th, 2013 at 10:15 AM | 3

In the final part of my three part interview with Governor Nikki Haley, we discussed how the subject of gun control found it’s way into the health care debate and the question of South Carolina’s role going forward in the fight against Obamacare. In the recent executive actions Obama signed, one was to “clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their | http://www.redstate.com/2013/02/15/haley-on-healthcare-part-three/