“I will be the best governor money can’t buy,” said Folwell
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 11:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the selection of organizations to serve three regions of the state
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 8:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Health care is a right, not a privilege — and ensuring that every single American has access to the quality, affordable health care they need is a national imperative.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 8:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new national study says that it appears safe to reopen schools for in-person instruction in counties with lower rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Published: Monday, January 18th, 2021 @ 3:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s trite to say the country is divided.
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 @ 10:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper met with childcare teachers at Mama Lissa’s Tiny Tot University, a five-star child care facility in Shelby. In a roundtable discussion, teachers shared that preventable diseases go untreated because they need access to health insurance.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2019 @ 5:34 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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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Governor Roy Cooper listened to child care teachers at Small World Child Care in Goldsboro today about their concerns about access to healthcare.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 6:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper says he won’t sign a new state budget unless the North Carolina General Assembly says yes to Medicaid expansion. The Republican-majority legislature has said no to Medicaid expansion. So far, now weeks into the new fiscal year, neither side has budged.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Vidant Hospital System dominates northeastern North Carolina. It is the largest employer and takes in about 1.3 billion dollars each year
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 2:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper met with childcare teachers at Noah’s Ark Children’s Center in Wilmington. In a roundtable discussion, teachers shared that too many of their colleagues are suffering from preventable diseases because they do not have access to health insurance.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 6:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If Medicaid expansion forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for a service that was either previously paid for some other way or not consumed in the first place, there is no reduction in the cost of care.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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University of North Carolina leaders aren't sure whether a partnership between UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System would help - or hurt - North Carolinians, UNC President Margaret Spellings said Friday
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2018 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed partnership making UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the nation has a new antagonist: BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare leaves the fate of free-market health reforms unclear
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The debate about the future of the Affordable Care Act is surging once again
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2017 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the Weekly Republican Address, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) addresses the continuing consequences of Obamacare and how it is impacting families across North Carolina
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 1:32 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The U.S. Supreme Court might have saved Obamacare from having to operate as written, but the landmark decision in King v. Burwell has not deterred those on the right side of the political debate from focusing on making health ins
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers can boost patient choice, put downward pressure on health care costs, and reduce red tape by repealing the state's certificate-of-need law
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have you been eating right? Getting enough exercise? How far away are you from your ideal weight?
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 10:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Already socked with rising premium costs due to Obamacare, Southern Elevator has delayed planned growth and job creation as it contemplates up to $800,000 in added annual health insurance costs a year from now, when employer mandates for medium-size businesses kick in.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Time was political candidates didn't spend all their money and energies telling us what a contemptuous scoundrel their opponent was.
Published: Saturday, October 18th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The political debate in North Carolina has me seeing double. A double standard, that is. On Tuesday, longtime Duke University health care scholar Chris Conover testified before the General Assembly's new Joint Study Committee on the Affordable Care Act and Implementation Issues. Conover's...
Published: Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
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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State AARP officials Friday rolled out their 2014 legislative priorities, and among them were safeguarding Medicare from cost-cutting, expanding Medicaid, and helping more seniors not yet eligible for Medicare to enroll in the federal health exchange. At the Raleigh event, AARP leaders also...
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 Carolina is among a number of state governments plagued by massive unfunded liabilities for state retirees' health insurance benefits, and, like many of its counterparts, it is placing greater responsibility for costs on members in a movement known as medical consumerism.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 @ 10:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's official toast boldly proclaims that ours is a state where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great.
Published: Saturday, April 27th, 2013 @ 9:02 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A recent study suggests that taxpayer costs could go down if the states expanded Medicaid enrollment under President Obama's signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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