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When the new North Carolina General Assembly session commences in January 2023, a mix of old and new faces will be present, along with revisiting some old issues and brand-new ones.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 7:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state has given WakeMed preliminary approval to build a new hospital in Garner and a new mental health hospital in Knightdale. The state also approved adding beds to both Duke Raleigh and UNC Rex hospitals.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After a decade of fighting it, Republicans agree on the largest entitlement expansion in state history
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fayetteville’s Dr. Dickson Schaefer is working as hard as he can, but his Cumberland County waiting room keeps filling back up.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 9:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new working paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that the link between Medicaid expansion and improved rates of adult mortality is not as clear as previous research has suggested.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 5:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new study says North Carolina's certificate of need law has denied the state nearly $1.5 billion in health care investment over the past decade.
Published: Saturday, December 10th, 2022 @ 9:51 am
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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As the North Carolina General Assembly plans to return to Raleigh Tuesday, The N.C. Healthcare Association has indicated a potential break in the standoff over certificate-of-need reform. Disagreements involving CON have helped block a deal for Medicaid expansion.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of Need laws give the state control of medical resources.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 10:24 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: Sunday, January 31st, 2021 @ 9:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday kicked off the new two-year state legislative session, and many politicos have stars in their eyes at the possibilities inherent with the new beginning.
Published: Monday, January 18th, 2021 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A surgeon’s challenge to make health care more affordable for his patients is another casualty of the coronavirus.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2020 @ 1:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The coronavirus did what years of lawmaking and lawsuits failed to do — pushed North Carolina to temporarily waive barriers on telemedicine and the controversial certificate of need laws that restrict the supply of health care.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A surgeon fighting state restrictions on medical equipment lost a court battle Friday, Jan. 9, when Superior Court Judge Gregory McGuire dismissed his specific complaints and sent his broader constitutional challenge before a three-judge panel.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 3:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of need reform was one of the bills sacrificed as scrap material for the piecemeal budget.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 @ 7:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of Need reform could join the other health-care issues that are ensnared in the fight over the budget veto override and Medicaid expansion.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 10:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A state law that’s supposed to promote N.C. health care could block Wake County residents from accessing superior medical technology.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 4:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State employees are no longer in immediate danger of paying out-of-network costs for their health care, but they may confront higher premiums and higher taxes later.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 1:18 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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Republican senators are making one last push to ease anti-competitive health-care laws before the legislative session ends.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A push to reform North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions on health providers will make it to the Senate floor.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
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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The Senate’s proposed biennial budget includes the largest pay raises for state employees in more than a decade, but doesn’t include a cost-of-living increase for state retirees.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 9:06 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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Certificate-of-need reforms were left out of the final budget compromise passed by the General Assembly
Published: Friday, June 23rd, 2017 @ 8:26 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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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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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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The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking repeal of six unnecessary certificate-of-need rules to reduce the regulatory burden on medical diagnostic centers and purchase of major medical equipment
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republican-led General Assembly in the just-ended 2016 short session maintained spending restraint, created and enlarged fiscal safeguards in case of an economic downturn, granted more income tax relief
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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