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North Carolina hospitals brought 5,922 lawsuits against 7,517 patients between January 2017 and June 2022.
Published: Thursday, November 16th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest offering from NCHA on CON Reform looks to increase the monopolistic hold hospitals have in North Carolina according to Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 2:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday the N.C. General Assembly’s Senate leadership announced a health care proposal that includes Medicaid expansion under the federal entitlement program, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt to overturn a certificate-of-need decision in Wake County. Appellate judges declined to overstep their authority to try to close a CON “loophole.”
Published: Monday, November 8th, 2021 @ 11:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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 24th, 2021 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When it comes to our business climate and economic prospects, North Carolinians are used to receiving accolades.
Published: Wednesday, May 26th, 2021 @ 6:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Bruce Schroeder couldn’t give the best treatment to women with breast cancer. State regulations blocked him from buying up-to-date mammogram machines.
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 @ 12:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The governor’s health-care panel recently released a set of guiding principles for medical management in the state.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 8:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina doesn’t just have a health care gap. Large fissures riddle the system.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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By the time it made it through the Senate, the bill to reform Certificate-of-Need laws had lost most of its teeth.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 1:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A years-long push to expand competition in the health-care industry passed the Senate Health Committee Monday and soon may reach the Senate floor.
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 8:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senators opposing North Carolina’s onerous certificate-of-need laws have no plans to stop pushing reforms.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 12:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The struggle over Vidant Health, the regional hospital network affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, escalated Thursday.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative opponents of certificate of need laws are confident. This may be the year they prevail against the restrictive health-care regulations.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 6:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan group of House members hopes to break a regulatory chokehold on surgical facilities.
Published: Friday, May 10th, 2019 @ 4:41 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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It’s no secret that Americans pay more for health care than any other industrialized country in the world
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina State Health Plan provides health care coverage to more than 720,000 teachers, state employees, retirees, and their dependents.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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A typical North Carolina medical patient would save nearly $300 a year and have more competitive options for lower-cost treatment if outdated regulations didn't exist, research shows
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Of all the differences among the three budgets submitted for the upcoming two-year spending cycle, none is larger, and less likely to be negotiated, than the $4.4 billion Medicaid expansion Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is pushing
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The battle to preserve the state's certificate-of-need laws is about to get personal
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One item in Senate's $22.9 billion spending plan isn't budgeted to cost the state a penny, with advocates arguing it will reduce government bureaucracy and improve access to medical services
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2017 @ 9:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The push to reform North Carolina's certificate-of-need laws that limit entry into the state's health care market will continue in the upcoming session, state senators say
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hospital patients die at higher rates from some common maladies in states that require providers to obtain a certificate of need for certain medical services, a new study concluded
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2016 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Durham orthopedic surgeon argues that the State Health Plan for public employees wastes a quarter-billion dollars annually because North Carolina's certificate-of-need laws force patients to use hospital-based facilities instead of physician-operated outpatient surgery clinics.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Often the best thing government can do is get out of the way. We've seen the results of that type of approach over the last six years with less government regulation, fewer taxes and greater access to free markets
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the House passed their proposed $22.225 billion state budget, and we in the Senate have already begun meeting and crafting our version of the budget
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 @ 8:36 am
By: Bill Cook
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The 2016 legislative short session begins April 25. While continued uncertainty over congressional (and even legislative) district maps could cut into the General Assembly's calendar, there are a number of moves our elected officials could make this year to highlight economic growth
Published: Sunday, May 1st, 2016 @ 1:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2016 legislative short session begins April 25. While continued uncertainty over congressional (and even legislative) district maps could cut into the General Assembly's calendar, there are a number of moves our elected officials could make this year to highlight economic growth
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2016 @ 8:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Building on transformational reforms begun in 2011, North Carolina's elected leaders continued changes in 2015 to curtail spending, instill fiscal responsibility, rein in regulations, improve education, make government open and accountable, and create the best possible conditions for economic growth
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical technology that seemed relegated to science fiction is at hand, but fast-moving innovations are threatened by established interests and government regulations, said a panel of medical and academic experts at the State Policy Network's recent annual meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 2:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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