During Tuesday's televised debate with incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory, Democratic challenger Roy Cooper took several opportunities to chide the governor for refusing both to advocate a North Carolina-based "exchange" that would market policies under the Affordable Care Act
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2016 @ 6:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 5:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thanks to President Barack Obama’s debut as a contributor for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the “public option” has made its way back into the great health care debate
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 10:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2016 @ 2:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mark Watson, executive director of human resources for Union County, will openly admit he is the ultimate skeptic
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 @ 12:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2016 @ 2:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, said the state's certificate-of-need law, a major regulatory barrier to reducing costs and competition in health care, would be repealed under a bill working its way through the Senate Health Care Committee
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 4:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 3:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tired of the average 7-minute doctor visit? Then consider making the switch to direct primary care (DPC). For an affordable monthly payment, patients are granted around-the-clock care, and doctors can spend more time with their patients. They can make house calls. They can dispense prescription...
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's pretty messed up what North Carolina hospitals have to go through just to be able to own an MRI machine
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A petition to ease restrictions on MRI machine ownership for community hospitals was struck down Wednesday by the State Health Coordinating Council's Technology and Equipment Committee, a division of the the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 6:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is concerned that insurers "have left health insurance markets in droves due to the increased burdens" of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 3:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Virginia may advance reforms in its Certificate of Public Need licensing laws for medical services as early as this week, if a bill removing anti-competition rules for hospitals passes the state’s House, making it eligible for consideration by the Senate.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 3:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I’ve written before how direct primary care networks help private, self-insured employers like Amazon and Expedia save big on health care claims
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week's newsletter highlighted the fiscal impact on North Carolina if the legislature agreed to opt for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. This week, I'll touch on three critical human costs...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina policymakers should take steps to make the state even friendlier to direct primary care
Published: Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This past Monday evening, I spoke on a panel at Wake Forest University's School of Law on whether North Carolina should expand Medicaid, the medical assistance program originally designed for low-income parents, children, elderly, blind, and disabled. Despite the enthusiastic, overwhelmingly...
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the Jan. 31 deadline to obtain a health insurance policy for 2016 on the federal health exchange looms, enrollment has grown slightly, but individuals signing up for Obamacare in 2016 should expect to pay premiums that are between 20 percent and 30 percent higher
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 @ 1:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Obamacare's failing co-ops (consumer-operated and oriented health plans) simply reinforce the fact that government intervention in health care creates all sorts of problems.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 6:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical providers will tell you that about 75 percent of health care can be provided in a primary care setting
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical providers will tell you that about 75 percent of health care can be provided in a primary care setting. Yet rising health insurance premiums and narrower networks are making it a burden for patients to access basic health care.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 6:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been dumped into the individual marketplace by their employers have the opportunity to sign up or renew their...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The excessive amount of government intervention that has been entrenched in our nation's health care system is curiously pushing medical providers to channel this negative energy into positive solutions - ones in which physicians are either scaling back or cutting off their relationships...
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the World War II era, workers have benefited from a rather large implicit tax subsidy on health coverage provided by their employers. Every dollar an employee spends from earned income is taxed, but every dollar spent on health care is not. Those who purchase health plans on their own lose...
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The medical code overkill is now here. After a four-year delay, the US health care system has crossed over to an updated medical diagnosis coding system endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), formally known as the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases, or ICD-10.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear a lot of lip service from Republicans in Raleigh about the beauty of the free market.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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