In just one month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether health insurance subsidies issued under the Affordable Care Act should be distributed only to insurance companies in state-based exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives have spent much time in recent years talking about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and opinion editor at Forbes, has a different idea. Roy issued a report in 2014 titled...
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal, government-run, i.e., single-payer, health care system. While this may be true, the U.S. system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's original second enrollment period to #GetCovered has just about come to a close. (It was supposed to end on Sunday, but the administration announced this week that they will be opening a new special enrollment period during tax season.) The Obama Administration has been chirping...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In December, 2014 the Federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final assessments of medical data for two of the programs within the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: Betty Murphy
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted for H.R. 596, To Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In "NeverEnding Story," a 1984 film loosely based on a fantasy novel by the German author Michael Ende, a boy reads about a land called Fantasia that is being erased by...
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 2:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government is steadily becoming more antagonistic and repugnant to the People.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 9:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Robeson County reduced the workweeks for 367 part-time employees and capped them at 25 hours weekly to avoid higher health insurance costs associated with mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year, Jonathan Gruber was "one of the most respected economists in the world," in the words of U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor. He was cited favorably by then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was praised by NPR and others for producing a comic book featuring...
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 12:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This Halloween, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) customers were spooked by skyrocketing premiums when opening their 2015 rate notification letters for their non-group health plans. While it turns out that the mailings provided incorrect information for an estimated 38,000...
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In most states, community colleges offer only associate degrees in nursing, which require two to three years of education. But in five states Florida, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, and Washington they offer a four-year nursing bachelor's degree.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 4:49 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, focuses on increasing health insurance coverage among Americans. It's unclear whether that focus on health insurance leads to better health care access or quality.
Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2014 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Vidant Health continues to be challenged by significant reductions in government reimbursements due to the Affordable Care Act, its Board of Directors approved the fiscal year 2015 operational plan today that provides the strategic direction and financial resources.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 12:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Belhaven Hospital is closed, locked and being stripped of everything anyone may use to operate a hospital. Vidant the owner of the hospital business, also known as University Health Systems, presented the public with a reason.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 11:25 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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One of the attorneys hoping to dissolve Obamacare through a lawsuit challenging the health reform act's Independent Payment Advisory Board said the deaths and mismanagement recently reported at Veterans Administration hospitals are "a great preview" of what lies in store if the health care law is...
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic congressional candidates Toni Morris and former state Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco espouse similar political beliefs, such as the need to raise taxes while cutting spending.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The past electoral successes of the two candidates running in the Republican primary for the 26th District of the N.C. House of Representatives could not be more different.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though he lacks the blessing of the GOP leadership in Congress, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is pushing a national health care reform he says would do precisely what the GOP establishment has pushed — repealing and replacing government-driven Obamacare with a system allowing more...
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters in the May 6 Republican primary for state House District 15 will choose between incumbent Phil Shepard, a two-term legislator who is a minister and civil service retiree, and Jim Morton, a farmer and retired educator running primarily on parochial issues.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 10:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congress should give President Barack Obama more power — when it comes to the issue of free trade, that is. Conservatives and constitutionalists are rightly concerned about recent arrogations or abuse of power by the executive branch. They should demand greater oversight by Congress and the...
Published: Saturday, March 29th, 2014 @ 8:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Richard Burr understands that America’s greatest challenge is healthcare and has made it his personal mission to help find solutions to our broken healthcare system.
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Remember all the brouhaha from last fall's Washington showdown and government shutdown? The dispute purportedly pitted Republicans intent on repealing Obamacare against the president and Democrats intent on preserving the legislation.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the Resolutions Chair for the Pitt County GOP, I wrote a series of resolutions that I plan to present at the upcoming 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention, on March 8.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 12:33 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Headlines in recent months have attracted attention to technical problems associated with HealthCare.gov, the primary website associated with the federal Affordable Care Act. While some technical issues remain to be resolved, Hadley Heath, senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum...
Published: Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governments at all levels have injected themselves into the debate over childhood obesity, with everything from rules about school lunches to higher taxes on candy and soft drinks, even a proposed tax on large, sugary sodas in New York City. Earlier this year, the North Carolina Institute of...
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 10:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Could President Obama's signature program, the Affordable Care Act, be responsible for declining rates of growth in U.S. health care spending? That's what some Obamacare advocates are claiming. To do so, however, would require that they be either embarrassingly uninformed or shamelessly dishonest...
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2010, we rose up en masse in protest against ObamaCare. We gave the US House to the Republicans, and closed the GOP's deficit with the Democrats in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Politicians don't get to choose the crises they face while in office but they can choose how they will react to them. Their responses often determine both their tenure in office and how history judges them.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An AP article in the Jan. 20 Tampa Tribune informs us that the Affordable Care Act helps narrow the income gap between rich and poor.
Published: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 @ 3:57 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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It's a Snow Day throughout much of North Carolina. So, naturally, I'm thinking about surfing the waves. The political waves, that is. Historically, the first midterm election after a president is reelected is not a pleasant one for the president's party. In modern times, observes Yale University...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State AARP officials Friday rolled out their 2014 legislative priorities, and among them were safeguarding Medicare from cost-cutting, expanding Medicaid, and helping more seniors not yet eligible for Medicare to enroll in the federal health exchange. At the Raleigh event, AARP leaders also...
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since the disastrous launch of the Obamacare insurance exchanges in October, supporters of the so-called Affordable Care Act have insisted that things were destined to get better.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The political left never rests in its drive to transform the U.S. into a more statist, more collective society. Its adherents are always scanning the status quo for openings and vulnerabilities to exploit, and they tirelessly produce a wide array of initiatives to advance their cause. It is hard...
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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