What N.C. can teach S.C.about fixing health care

A legislative study committee tasked with examining virtually every aspect of South Carolina’s faltering health care market will not move forward in 2024 after a sweep of Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto pen removed it from the new state budget last week. McMaster raised two objections: the study’s six-month time frame, which he said was too short, and the inclusion of Medicaid expansion as one of the 30 market reforms to be examined. “I remain unconvinced that the expansion of Medicaid benefits — which this legislative study committee is tasked with...