Nurse Joann Stroman, Wellness Manager and Evelyn Stanley both staff from the Bamberg Job Corps Center had the opportunity of a lifetime.  They met Congressman James Clyburn on Friday, April 9, 2010 at the Russell House, University of South Carolina Campus.  It was Mrs. Stanley second acquaintance with Congressman Clyburn who was the keynote speaker speaking on health disparities.  This was the third Heath Disparities Lecture Series research and practice being conducted by the University of South Carolina faculty members, research staff, and students as well as community, clinical and/or agency partners.
Congressman Clyburn 69 is very alert and on top of the issues says Mrs. Stanley.  Congressman Clyburn says, “Whatever is done when it comes to reforming healthcare, education, I will not be silent.  Clyburn goes on to say that there will be immediate change with the new healthcare bill to include a few are:
  Students attending college to get their master’s degree can now maintain on their parents insurance until the age of 26 years old
  If your juvenile child has diabetes, the new health plan will cover the bill
  Pre-existing conditions will now be covered
Clyburn states that “this bill will produce 400,000 jobs.  This bill will double healthcare
positions. Clyburn goes on to say that in the first ten years the heath bill will increase the deficient by 143, billion dollars and in the second ten years it will increase by 1.2 trillion dollars.  He says the question should not be how can we afford to do this but we should say we can’t afford not to do this.