The current debate over the long-term sustainability of North Carolina's Medicaid program pits defenders of the status-quo Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) model against reformers touting Governor Pat McCrory's proposed Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 1:18 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, November 3rd, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medicaid spending has grown dramatically, while patient health outcomes have declined, as North Carolina has relied on Community Care of North Carolina to serve most Medicaid patients. A new Policy Report from the John Locke Foundation and Florida-based Foundation for Government Accountability highl
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 @ 1:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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About 1.8 million North Carolinians receive Medicaid benefits, with federal and state taxpayers contributing more than $14 billion a year to the program. Now North Carolina and other states are trying to figure out how to ensure quality care and outcomes, while reducing costs. Katherine Restrepo...
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina medical community presses ahead with a sweeping conversion to electronic health records, privacy advocates warn that confidential medical data is in jeopardy, and patients' most intimate health information could be used in harmful ways against them.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The new state budget includes a provision creating an advisory panel to rewrite the way the state delivers Medicaid services. It's part of the Partnership for...
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A multimillion-dollar computer system to collect and analyze massive amounts of statewide medical data and designed to improve North Carolina health...
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the past year, North Carolinians have heard many things about Obamacare, Medicaid, and health care reform that turned out to be untrue.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory's Medicaid reform plan marks a "critical step forward" to help create a pro-patient, pro-taxpayer health care safety net. That's the conclusion...
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2013 @ 11:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina could look northwest to Indiana and south to Florida for evidence of how a consumer-driven model would improve the state Medicaid program.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2013 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remember Where's Waldo? Imagine for a moment that he had the word "privatization" stitched on his colorful little cap, and see if you can spot him...
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Gov. Pat McCrory moves ahead with attempts to fix what he calls an irreversibly broken Medicaid system fraught with cost overruns and mismanagement...
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are many unknowns regarding the proposal Gov. Pat McCrory announced last week to use competitive contracting to reform North Carolina's Medicaid program.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory hopes to inject market-based solutions into the state's costly Medicaid system, shifting the burden of controlling systemic budget overruns from...
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Peppering her remarks with fiscal horror stories, state Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos told lawmakers Wednesday she is reforming a harried department in organizational meltdown.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With "consistent support from the [GOP] caucus," the House Health and Human Services Committee will take up a Senate-passed bill today to reject two provisions under the federal Affordable Care Act...
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State officials will not say whether anyone will be charged in a Medicaid spending scandal uncovered by the state auditor's office.
Published: Thursday, February 7th, 2013 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state audit finding potentially "hundreds of millions of dollars" of Medicaid mismanagement also called for "a scientifically valid study" of North Carolina's showcase Medicaid program due to suspect savings claims and questionable methodologies used to evaluate it.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 1:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's Medicaid program is in a major state of disarray, costing taxpayers "hundreds of millions of dollars" in mismanagement, a blistering state audit revealed.
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a growing number of skeptics question the fiscal soundness of North Carolina's centerpiece Medicaid program, there is a push for a legislative review of the system.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2013 @ 1:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The popular image of Medicaid is that of a small program that provides basic but good-quality medical care to a limited, impoverished segment of North Carolina’s population – and that politicians have skimped on funding it.
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2012 @ 8:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As North Carolina continues to shift most of its Medicaid recipients into its showcase Community Care of North Carolina program, some say the centralized system needs free-market reforms to avoid chronic and costly budget overruns.
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 @ 3:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Bev Perdue today announced key leadership changes and consolidation at the Department of Health and Human Services as part of her continued focus to provide the best service for the people of the state.
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 @ 12:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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