With Thanksgiving in hindsight, it's that time of year again. Time to renew your health plan, that is
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2018 @ 1:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the North Carolina legislature and other federal obstacles standing in the way, Gov. Roy Cooper is relentless in attempts to expand Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health services at no cost to low-income children, parents, pregnant women, aged, blind, and disabled
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina policymakers should take steps to make the state even friendlier to direct primary care
Published: Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The excessive amount of government intervention that has been entrenched in our nation's health care system is curiously pushing medical providers to channel this negative energy into positive solutions - ones in which physicians are either scaling back or cutting off their relationships...
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:45 pm
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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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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The clinical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been recognized for significantly improving patient care through the use of their electronic medical record system.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 11:58 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It's rate-filing season for health insurance companies, and this week marked the deadline for carriers to disclose and explain any proposed rate increases of ten percent or more for 2016 Obamacare plans sold on the individual market. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina made the cut.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In just one month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether health insurance subsidies issued under the Affordable Care Act should be distributed only to insurance companies in state-based exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v Burwell, where the plaintiffs are not seeking to challenge Obamacare, but for the federal health law to operate as written.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2015 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's original second enrollment period to #GetCovered has just about come to a close. (It was supposed to end on Sunday, but the administration announced this week that they will be opening a new special enrollment period during tax season.) The Obama Administration has been chirping...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's now been one month since Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina went public with its health care cost estimator tool. Regardless of whether you have a BCBS card, anyone can now compare average costs for more than 1,200 procedures in just about any zip code across the state...
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 9:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To kick off the New Year, the Cato Institute hosted its ninth annual health policy conference, where I and other attendees were briefed heavily on the status and potential implications of King v. Burwell - better known as one of the Obamacare "subsidy lawsuits."
Published: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 @ 9:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To kick off the New Year, the Cato Institute hosted its 9th annual health policy conference, where I and other attendees were heavily briefed on the status and potential implications of King V Burwell - better known as one of the Obamacare "subsidy lawsuits."
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This Halloween, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) customers were spooked by skyrocketing premiums when opening their 2015 rate notification letters for their non-group health plans. While it turns out that the mailings provided incorrect information for an estimated 38,000...
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A massive government overhaul of our health care delivery system continues to unfold, and the nation is embarking upon uncharted territory. Providers are fed up with reduced payments, spending more time wading through convoluted third-party paperwork, and not being reimbursed in a timely fashion...
Published: Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week marks the first annual Healthcare Solutions Week - where public policy think tanks nationwide are raising awareness about how market-based principles can reduce health care costs while increasing quality and accessibility of care.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 10:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ongoing Medicaid reform initiatives seeking to rein in unnecessary spending and better coordinate patient care may improve North Carolina's medical assistance program to a degree, and the special interests involved ostensibly have good intentions.
Published: Sunday, August 17th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two recent federal appeals court rulings address the question of whether Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for individual-market consumers can be distributed to those purchasing insurance through federal exchanges.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Employers with fewer than 50 full-time workers do not suffer Obamacare's employer mandate tax if they do not offer health insurance coverage. However, if a firm chooses to offer coverage, it must be compliant with the law's standards.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 2:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medicaid takes a serious bite out of North Carolina's budget. Of the General Fund's $5 billion allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Medicaid devours a solid $3 billion. But if we step back and account for Medicaid's total cost - state and federal funds combined - tax...
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 11:43 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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A health insurance exchange, commonly referred to in the media simply as an “exchange,” is an online marketplace where individuals can shop for heavily regulated nongroup health plans offered by participating insurance companies.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The drooling sycophants in the remnants of the mainstream media are reporting that Barry is really, really, really, really, really sorry that people are getting their insurance policies cancelled.
Published: Saturday, November 9th, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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People who sign up for health insurance on the new Obamacare exchanges may qualify for subsidies. The subsidy amount one receives is determined by the individual's projected annual household income for 2014.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Individual health insurance premiums in North Carolina would spike as much as 80 percent on average due to the effects of Obamacare mandates if plans submitted by Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina receive federal approval as expected.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the fact that North Carolina has rejected expanding Medicaid to some citizens - fewer than 500,000 - the state has not rejected the federal health law's Medicaid expansion in its entirety. North Carolina has, in fact, expanded its broken entitlement program.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2013 @ 6:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Buoyed by Gov. Pat McCrory's announcement that he does not support expanding Medicaid rolls or creating a state-run health insurance exchange, a state House committee voted Tuesday over Democrats' objections in favor of...
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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