The Senate has overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 86, which could make high-quality, affordable health care insurance available to tens of thousands of North Carolina residents lacking coverage.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 10:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Adults who don’t receive health insurance through their employer struggle to find affordable plans when they look to buy coverage on their own from an insurance company
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 2016 campaign cycle, many candidates, including Donald Trump, promised voters that they would work to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with a system that provided similar levels of protection for those individuals who are most vulnerable, lowered costs for healthcare
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 6:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On March 3rd, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare was signed into law with the promise of slowing the rising costs of health care
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The authority of the states to regulate their own insurance markets was severely curtailed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States health care system is a unique, complex web of consumers, providers, and payers. And it is expensive
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three words you almost never hear from politicians is "I was wrong." I'm not one, but can admit that on the subject of Medicaid expansion I was wrong. Now our legislature should do the same.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 9:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation in access to health care. When you consider we have great access in some parts of the state - those close to metropolitan areas and teaching hospitals in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Triad, and Triangle - the overall ranking is misleading
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Heritage Foundation senior fellow Robert Moffit writes about why the recent Senate vote to eliminate the Obamacare mandate requiring people to have health insurance or face a penalty was a “wise call.”
Published: Sunday, January 7th, 2018 @ 12:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Health policy experts say President Donald Trump could rekindle Obamacare repeal efforts by killing the handouts insulating Congress from the program's costs
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 @ 2:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare leaves the fate of free-market health reforms unclear
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to save North Carolina nearly $400 million
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Trump Administration announced that the federal government will no longer make Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments under the Affordable Care Act, ensuring that health insurance premiums will sky rocket in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 5:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The debate about the future of the Affordable Care Act is surging once again
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2017 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is evident that Congress is unable to pass meaningful and significant healthcare reform
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2017 @ 4:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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As Republicans try to spark what many see as their last, best effort to repeal Obamacare, health-care analyst Avik Roy is throwing dirt on the Graham-Cassidy bill
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2017 @ 3:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Dare County Republican Party Executive Committee passed a resolution at our August 20, 2017, meeting in Kill Devil Hills
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Health policy experts disagree whether significant free-market reforms can supplant Obamacare despite the program's rocky decline
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 12:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The power to grant a right to health care is the right to deny it
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement on Health Care Reform vote
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2017 @ 12:40 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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In their fervor to repeal and replace Obamacare, our Congress has run head first into a wall of political reality: once you extend benefits to people it is almost impossible to take them away. Despite all the bluff and bluster
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 6:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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What some hyperpartisans now call "fake news" is in many instances neither fake nor news.
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you've ever put together a jigsaw puzzle you can understand the task of assembling a state budget. Like a puzzle, one piece of the spending and tax plan builds upon another as lawmakers construct a two-year budget that spends more than $23 billion a year
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 @ 10:12 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), a bill that would substitute portions of Obamacare with new federal programs and make a variety of other changes to the American health care system
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 8:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If we can allow ourselves to tune out the many distractions coming out of Washington (and Raleigh), we might be able to tune into the number one domestic issue of our time - healthcare
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 3:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to President Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to "ease the burden" of Obamacare
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2017 @ 4:59 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Gov. Roy Cooper's attempt to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act before President Obama leaves office may have run aground as the result of an order issued Saturday night by a federal judge
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare has failed. Almost all of its original promises have been broken
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 4:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Roy Cooper spent his last few weeks as governor-elect of North Carolina attacking the state legislature for encroaching on the separation of powers, weakening the rule of law, subverting the will of the voters, and hurrying new policies through too quickly, without adequate discussion
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a press release issued late Friday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper rolled out his request to federal officials to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 2:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday he will, by asking Washington to amend the state's Medicaid plan, expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 1:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is pushing a health-care plan similar to a proposal Dr. Ben Carson floated during his short run in the Republican primary
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2016 @ 8:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is too early to tell at this writing whether Roy Cooper's slim election night lead over Pat McCrory will hold after the remaining ballots are counted, all ballots are recounted, and all potential legal contests and protests are filed and adjudicated
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 @ 5:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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