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A federal judge in North Dakota ruled on Monday that the Biden administration cannot compel Christian employers and health care providers to pay for transgender surgeries and other procedures.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 @ 11:25 pm
By: Daily Wire
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America is in freefall. Cities are crumbling, with open drug abuse and homeless everywhere, overdose deaths are soaring, there’s a mental health epidemic, and then there are the crises, oh the crises: the border, the federal debt, lack of affordable housing, flat-out unaffordable health care.
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2023 @ 1:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to use federal healthcare funds to cover at least six months of rent for the state’s disproportionately large homeless population and for those on the brink of losing their housing.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A federal judge approved a class action settlement of more than $10 million for workers at an Illinois healthcare system whose religious exemptions against taking the COVID vaccine were rejected.
Published: Sunday, January 1st, 2023 @ 11:05 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A federal court struck another blow to President Joe Biden on Monday, blocking the president’s vaccine mandate on health care workers in 10 states.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 8:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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A federal judge in Louisiana blocked Democrat President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers on Tuesday, issuing a nationwide injunction on Biden’s order.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 12:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A federal court denied Democrat President Joe Biden's Department of Justice on Monday from being able to stop a temporary block on vaccine mandates on healthcare workers.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 8:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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A federal judge on Tuesday partially blocked New York’s vaccine mandate for health care and long-term care workers throughout the state.
Published: Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 @ 3:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s 8th District congressman is teaming up with a high-profile Texas counterpart to help sponsor a bill clarifying the federal government’s response to health care emergencies.
Published: Thursday, November 11th, 2021 @ 7:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Appeals to President Trump for Flexibility to Help North Carolinians in all 100 Counties
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 11:59 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolinians who buy their own health insurance need to enroll by Dec. 15
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2019 @ 1:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today encouraged North Carolinians who do not have health insurance to enroll for 2020 coverage through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 3:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Advanced-practice nurses, federal officials say regulation limits access to health care and increases costs
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 @ 2:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ten years ago, the passage of Obamacare vastly increased the federal government’s role in our health–care system.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2019 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Given the legislative logjams created by a divided federal government, it's safe to say that the chances of major health care reform in Congress are very low.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has received federal approval to transition to a cost-saving, whole-health Medicaid managed care system that will take the state out of the day-to-day management of the government insurance program for the elderly, disabled, and poor
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2018 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently released federal data shows that a partnership between ECU and Vidant Health made significant improvements in the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries while still achieving significant cost savings last year
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 2:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced broad efforts to work with federal and county partners to provide additional flexibility to people enrolled in the Medicaid program and their health care providers during and after Hurricane Florence
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 9:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Flu shots are available at hospitals, pharmacies, private medical offices, some federally qualified health care centers and local health departments
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 @ 3:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Federal regulators are getting increasingly uneasy with proposals such as a partnership involving UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Dr. Mandy Cohen has a sterling pedigree with Ivy League credentials and a previous job at the highest level of federal health care
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2017 @ 11:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The federal government yesterday confirmed that Obamacare plans will see a double digit increase, a major blow to the healthcare law still supported by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 @ 3:46 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Last week's newsletter highlighted the fiscal impact on North Carolina if the legislature agreed to opt for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. This week, I'll touch on three critical human costs...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Citing the mounting cost and health burdens on federal health programs, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and a bipartisan group of his colleagues are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement a program to support family caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 6:40 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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As the Jan. 31 deadline to obtain a health insurance policy for 2016 on the federal health exchange looms, enrollment has grown slightly, but individuals signing up for Obamacare in 2016 should expect to pay premiums that are between 20 percent and 30 percent higher
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health policy doesn't exactly rank high on the summer reading bucket list. Let's be real - for most people, it's not all that fitting for the beach, and it surely doesn't pair well with red wine during a gossipy book-club meeting.
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health care policy decisions usually come as federal dictates, so it's a rare opportunity when state legislators have full authority to grant North Carolinians more freedom over their health care options.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2015 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today the release of a new NC4VETS printed resource guide and new updated website that focuses on federal VA benefits as well as opportunities for employment, education, health care, housing and personal services for North Carolina veterans.
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 3:13 am
By: Chris Downey
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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By the looks of it, the individual mandate is almost devoid of life. This tax was once viewed as the centerpiece of the federal health law. Without this critical element of government coercion, Obamacare could not work to its full capacity.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As couples celebrated the most recent Valentine's Day, it looked as if Obamacare's love for the young invincibles remained unrequited.
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The official deadline recently passed for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's exchange policyholders to pay their January health insurance premiums. The deadline was extended at the behest of President Obama due to serious problems with the federal HealthCare.gov website. The days of...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents key Obamacare flaws and offers alternatives for addressing health care needs.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joe Biden stumbled into Chapel Hill this week to offer his, um, assistance to our hapless junior US senator. Around Haymaker HQ, we were gleefully awaiting more of that patented Biden wisdom and eloquence.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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For the second time in recent weeks, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable to plaintiffs seeking to block the IRS from collecting tax penalties from employers in states such as North Carolina that do not have a state health insurance exchange under Obamacare. If any of several lawsuits...
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although it may not seem obvious at first, there is a common denominator between two separate dramas playing out in Washington and Raleigh right now. Nationally, the top story in domestic policy is the impending implementation of the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 3:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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FirstCarolinaCare Insurance Company is withdrawing from participation in the federal health exchange. Uninsured North Carolina consumers will have only two provider options from which to purchase policies approved by federal regulators and mandated under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)...
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much of the debate about the 2010 federal health care reform law involved the so-called "individual mandate," the notion that the government could force everyone to buy...
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the first pieces of legislation approved this year by the Republican-controlled N.C. General Assembly was a bill barring the state from expanding Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 5:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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