Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very nearly was Hunter's time. A video-game repairman when not delivering elbow smashes in Greenville's Southern Carolina Wrestling arena, Hunter, 27, began to feel sick back in mid-August, went to his family doctor, had tests and was told he had a liver problem. He checked into Greenville Memorial Hospital, where his enzyme levels were monitored...
...that an antiseizure medication he had been taking might have played a role. What was important was that he was getting sicker. His doctor at Greenville Memorial decided that Hunter should be in a hospital where liver transplants are done. The nearest one was the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. The question of insurance was not a consideration in his decision...
...contractor. One possibility is that PHP's contract with Duke to do bone-marrow transplants was misconstrued as a liver contract. Another is that Physician's Health Plan was confused with another provider that is also sometimes referred to as PHP: Partners National Health Plan, a North Carolina insurer that does have a liver-transplant contract with Duke. "It's an alphabet soup out there," complains Karyn Bowie, director of managed care at MUSC. "The complexity of the system and how rapidly it changes from one day to the next make the job very tough," says MUSC's Dr. Rubin...
...Starr Method, invented and deployed in Washington, has made its way to the states. Call it the Starr Devolution. In South Carolina this week, allies of Jim Hodges, the Democrat running against G.O.P. Governor David Beasley, plan to ask Beasley about--you guessed it--infidelity. In a political twist that surely has both parties' elders shuddering, the Democrats will attempt to depose Beasley on Thursday at a law office just a few blocks from the Governor's office. A Democratic Party lawyer, Cameron Lewis, tells TIME he has no intention of subjecting Beasley to the kind of detailed grand jury...
...this round, Hodges is catching up to Beasley in the polls, riding a freaky wave of money and support. A former state legislator and a corporate lawyer, Hodges touts tax revenues from gambling as the best way to fund South Carolina's crumbling education system, and grateful video-poker barons have rewarded him with heavy campaign contributions. Beasley has made himself an enemy of the state's gambling interests by calling for a ban on video poker and opposing a referendum on introducing a state lottery...