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This joint resolution establishes the Healthcare Market Reform Measures Study Committee, a comprehensive legislative body designed to examine and recommend potential improvements to South Carolina's healthcare market. The committee will consist of six voting members from the State Legislature, including chairs and appointees from both the House of Representatives and Senate, and a robust 29-member nonvoting advisory board representing various state agencies, healthcare organizations, consumer groups, and professional associations. The committee's primary mandate is to study potential healthcare market reforms, including increasing insurance market competition, promoting consumer-directed health plans, expanding telemedicine, lowering prescription drug prices, ensuring price transparency, and evaluating impacts of potential Medicaid expansion. By December 1, 2025, the committee is required to submit a detailed report to the General Assembly with recommendations for potential legislative actions, which must be based on a majority vote and consider consumer costs, benefits, and overall healthcare service quality. To support its work, the committee will engage the South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health and other expert consultants to provide independent analysis and recommendations. The committee will automatically dissolve upon submission of its final report, with the joint resolution taking effect upon gubernatorial approval.

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