By FITSNEWS || S.C. Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) director Tony Keck will resign from the administration of Gov. Nikki Haley within the next few months to pursue “other opportunities,” multiple sources familiar with his plans tell FITS.
The leading candidate to replace Keck is former Haley deputy chief of staff Christian Soura.
Keck has presided over rapid – and we believe reckless – expansion of the state’s Medicaid program since he was appointed by Haley in 2011.
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Another unqualified haley appointment!
The people of South Carolina want
“Conservative” government with “conservative values!”
They are about to get four more years of it!
The people of South Carolina want
“Conservative” government with “conservative values!”
They are about to get four more years of it!
… ok …
Are you being sarcastic concerning the facts that SC is among the nation’s laggards in education, per capita income, welfare of our children, health of our citizens, etc. or among the leaders in domestic and spousal abuse, incarceration rate, deaths on highways, political corruption and lack of ethics among our leaders, , etc.? Or do you actually believe that these “conservative values” and “conservative government” are truly serving our citizens?
“Sarcastic?”
What?You don’t think NIKKI Haley represent “conservatism” in all its “guises?”
The people of South Carolina want this government.They DESERVE it!
South Carolina government is pitiful. Everybody in government politic leadership positions are full of themselves, corrupt, violate criminal statutes to no end, and must be punished with prison time. Only the Feds can clean it all up. It’s a state wide cesspool of criminal activity. SLED agents are leaking FBI information to the roaches perhaps?
Fits, no story on the new DOR director? Blume is gone, and some 40 something lawyer is now the head of the agency.
Another LAWYER?
Trikki is kind of schizophrenic about them lawyers.
If Vincent has half a brain – doubtful – he will clean her clock the minute she says ‘trial lawyer’ when they debate and give the voters the numbers on her lawyer appointees.
I think he’s actually 35!
The new DOR head is a Leatherman man. Haley made a deal re the vendors at HHS (yes, HHS). Leatherman’s friends in health care got everything they wanted, and she made her share on the pharmaceutical plan and the data systems.
Check little Timmy Pearson tax returns, and her Pac, and the Original 6 and some of the names leap off the pages. However, some of the names are missing as they are on her OTHER pac, the one not yet disclosed to the public.
Yes – it’s a nice $150,000/yr job and then go back to law. It’s a great day in South Carolina for Rick Reames.
I think Reames probably made $300,000 at Nelson Mullins. Maybe they’ll pay him $600,000 when he returns
He still works for Nelson Mullins. They will make a killing off DOR.
I meant Nexsen Pruet. Sorry.
The revolving door is pretty damn lucrative.
Blume did very little. He was a ?mess around the edges guy” that worked few hours and would never be strident enough to make significant change.
He is an accountant, and a salesman, through and through.
http://www.knoe.com/story/26606146/jindals-ex-health-secretary-indicted-on-perjury
Keck briefly held this job as Bobby Jindal’s acting health secretary before Trikki hired him.
Is he too close to the Lousiana scandal for comfort?
He sold the State Agency functions to SC Blue Cross/Blue Shield one contract at a time from the day he got there… The agency management is now largely Haley Hacks who couldn’t feed themselves in the private sector… Wonder if he’ll go there?
“rapid and reckless expansion”???
This “expansion” was primarily due to the publicity resulting from Haley’s defiant refusal to accept the Medicaid expansion offered by the ACA. The result was many people discovered that they were already eligible for regular Medicaid — many due to jobs lost in the Great Recession.
Ssssh, don’t add to many facts to the debate, it might challenge someone’s preconceived notions
One guy leaving is not a major cabinet reshuffle.
SIc, you failed to mention that Soura is already in at SCDHHS.
I have to wonder, how are Catherine Templeton and Jamie Shuster, DHEC’s Thelma and Louise, going to get by without their “circle of trust” meetings with Keck? What the hell does Soura know about health financing and payment systems. Virtually everyone that was at SCDHHS that did has either left, been fired, or RIF’ed during one of the many purges that happened under Keck’s “stewardship”.