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Dr. Barbara Stock Nielsen, South Carolina’s first Republican Superintendent of Education, shares her remarks to a SC House Ways and Means subcommittee, which include four key ideas to fix South Carolina’s broken education funding system.

The Trouble with “Medicare for All”

September 16, 2017

by Ellen Weaver

Let’s hope for the sake of our health – and our wallets – that Americans remember Margaret Thatcher’s prescient admonition: ‘The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

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Online Course Access

Online Course Access harnesses technology to offer students access to high-quality, customized education. It renders location irrelevant while offering numerous courses.

Education Scholarship Accounts

An education reform that promises quality of learning, preparation for the future, flexibility to meet the individual needs of a child, and immediacy of impact.

Rating SC Schools

A system that boldly rewards excellence with transparency and accounts for value added is the best accountability system for SC schools.

Right To Shop

Sky-high medical bills? Unexpected health care costs? Patients deserve the “Right to Shop” and polls show they want it too.

Direct Primary Care

By re-asserting the doctor-patient relationship and jettisoning third-party payers, Direct Primary Care is “innovating backwards.”

Medicaid By the Numbers

How much does Medicaid in South Carolina really cost the taxpayer? Expanding Medicaid used to be a nebulous policy fight…not anymore!

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