Two bills that would have greatly overhauled health care in South Carolina — one chopping up the state health agency and another that would have repealed hospital regulations — appear dead for this legislative session after a House committee panned Senate bills to do both, The Post and Courier reports.
One of the measures proposed splitting the Department of Health and Environmental Control into separate health and environmental agencies, while the other would have repealed the state’s Certificate of Need laws that govern what hospitals and doctors can buy and build in the state. Read more.
