Today, the CEO of Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital presented Governor Roy Cooper with a resolution “urging the North Carolina General Assembly to expand Medicaid in North Carolina as soon as possible.”
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 10:38 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Senate Republicans believe in patient-centered health care that delivers the choices they want, the affordability and protections they need, and the quality they deserve. That is why Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues today introduced the Protect Act
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Much of the media coverage of the continuing government shutdown has focused on stories of federal workers who aren't getting paid. Stories about irregular inspections of our food and longer, slower lines at airports.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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The media has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism lately, particularly for chasing shiny objects designed to attract viewers and page clicks, rather than focusing on the important policies
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 7:17 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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On one point, President-elect Donald Trump has it right
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2016 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This past Sunday, editors at the News & Observer ran Tell the truth on NC school funding. Not surprisingly, the N&O gives their side of school funding.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 3:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In national news coverage leading up to the March 15 presidential primaries, North Carolina's election was treated as an afterthought
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 1:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the World War II era, workers have benefited from a rather large implicit tax subsidy on health coverage provided by their employers. Every dollar an employee spends from earned income is taxed, but every dollar spent on health care is not. Those who purchase health plans on their own lose...
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory expanded insurance coverage for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by signing the Autism Health Insurance Coverage Act into law today at a ceremony in Charlotte.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2015 @ 6:11 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) health insurance exchanges are just one mechanism to expand coverage that primarily benefits low-income individual market policyholders and those with pre-existing conditions who cannot afford or access employer-sponsored health insurance.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 2:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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SCOTUS may have saved Obamacare from having to operate as written, but the landmark decision on King v Burwell has not deterred those on the right side of things from focusing on making health insurance (and more importantly health care) more affordable for more Americans.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 6:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That’s right. Our license tags advertise us as “First In Flight.” But, thanks to ObamaCare, we are speeding our way toward being “First In Dependence.”
Published: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 6:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A new study by researchers at East Carolina University suggests that equivalent health insurance coverage may not level the disparities between African-American and Caucasian lung cancer patients when it comes to the stage at which they're diagnosed.
Published: Saturday, February 21st, 2015 @ 10:22 am
By: ECU News Services
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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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We usually try to keep our focus on events related to The Carolinas, but the circus in Ferguson, Missouri has us stepping out from those parameters.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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After years of rejecting progressives’ class warfare argument about “the haves” and the “have-nots,” I’m a bit embarrassed to acknowledge they’ve been right all along.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate is preparing to finalize a bill approved last year by the state's House of Representatives mandating more universal health insurance coverage for autism services.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 7:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Though a League of Women Voters presentation on the Affordable Care Act on Monday sounded more like talking points from the Obama administration than a current assessment of the national healthcare law's impacts and flaws, some uninsured people in attendance said the session was informative.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians are growing more outraged as they find out what the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is really doing to their finances and their ability to control their health care.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Even its most ardent supporters agree The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is flawed, so there is no surprise there is a growing movement to repeal this act most believe won't cure our healthcare ills and doesn't contain costs.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 11:58 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Tax subsidies in Obamacare could push at least half of privately insured, lower-income North Carolinians into the federal health exchange and off of private coverage, critics of the federal health reform law say.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Barack Obama and the Democrats waged the most negative campaign in recent memory, Mitt Romney and the Republicans spent their campaign cash less efficiently than the Democrats did.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 8:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you get a new job with good pay and excellent benefits. In fact, the health insurance coverage is the most generous you've seen. You pay nothing for coverage while you are working, and after a set number of years, you can get free coverage in your retirement years as well.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 5:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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