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When the Democratic Congress and the Obama administration enacted the Affordable Care Act a decade ago, the part that got the most attention was a set of insurance exchanges where Americans could enroll in private health plans with varying degrees of subsidy.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 3:11 am
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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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the biennial budget bill, saying North Carolina residents are dying because Republicans won’t expand Medicaid rolls.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 1:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal landscape for a major health insurance reform shifted dramatically Thursday with a decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2019 @ 11:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In 2017, top North Carolina Democrats Rep. Meyer, Rep. Fischer, Rep. Cunningham, Sen. Chaudhuri, Sen. Van Duyn, and Sen. Woodard sponsored a bill called the "Whole Woman's Health Act" that sought to remove most of the state's protections for women and children on abortion.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 @ 10:58 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Some lawmakers hope to allow family farmers, small farm-related businesses, and others to band together for more affordable health coverage. The move could help hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
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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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to be more than North Carolina's version of the Dutch boy, his finger plugging the dike of underperforming state health and pension plans
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the more intriguing North Carolina congressional races is for the open seat in the 13th Congressional District between Democrat Bruce Davis and Republican Ted Budd
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Buck Newton and Democrat Josh Stein agreed on many topics during a debate by the attorney general candidates Tuesday night, but the dueling lawyers did it in sometimes disagreeable fashion on the details
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 @ 3:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The continuing calls to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have a seemingly unlikely ally - Medicaid Health Plans of America, the trade association representing a number of top Medicaid managed care organizations
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Houston! We have a problem. Well, actually it's not just Houston. It's Atlanta, New York, Philly, Detroit, LA, Portland, Miami, and every single city, town, village, and hamlet in the USA.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 6:04 am
By: Rod Eccles
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State Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is concerned that insurers "have left health insurance markets in droves due to the increased burdens" of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 3:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Six years ago today, amid glowing promises of cost-cutting and expanded health care for all, President Obama signed into law his signature Affordable Care Act
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Vidant Health has been recognized as one of the nation's "Most Wired" health systems in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2015 @ 10:37 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Vidant Health and the Veterans Administration (VA) are working together to share health information on veterans treated at Vidant Health facilities. The VA's Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Exchange program gives VA and non-VA health care providers secure access to certain parts of
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Yep. That's the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I had to convince myself repeatedly that this was NOT a Saturday Night Live skit. The drive-bys subjected us AND the candidates with some moronic, leftist questions.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 1:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Veteran election observer Larry Sabato has a thought-provoking piece out in the latest edition of Politico Magazine.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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U.S. Rep. Walter Jones says re-electing him to his seat in the 3rd Congressional District is vital to North Carolina's military economy because he would be the second-most-senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Jones points with pride to being named by The Hill newspaper as one...
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 10:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though he lacks the blessing of the GOP leadership in Congress, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is pushing a national health care reform he says would do precisely what the GOP establishment has pushed — repealing and replacing government-driven Obamacare with a system allowing more...
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remember all the brouhaha from last fall's Washington showdown and government shutdown? The dispute purportedly pitted Republicans intent on repealing Obamacare against the president and Democrats intent on preserving the legislation.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I had the opportunity for an audience with Charlotte pastor — and US Senate candidate — Mark Harris on Saturday. (I do have to commend him for not running away in terror after I introduced myself. For some reason, I scare some political candidates.)
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 12:17 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2010, we rose up en masse in protest against ObamaCare. We gave the US House to the Republicans, and closed the GOP's deficit with the Democrats in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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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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That sounds like a simple statement, and one with which most people would readily agree. In reality, however, the statement has multiple meanings. How you read it can say a lot about your views on Obamacare, health insurance, and reform initiatives.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For North Carolina liberals intent on recovering some political power in Raleigh, a funny thing happened on the way to a quorum: reality intruded on their most-cherished claims about the two biggest issues in North Carolina politics.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 2:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina officials are scrambling to determine the impacts of accepting President Obama's one-year delay in canceling policies that have been deemed illegal under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2013 @ 11:59 pm
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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Following a national trend, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce in January will begin offering businesses an opportunity to reduce the cost of employee health benefits through a private exchange.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 7:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the enrollment period for Obamacare experiences a rocky start, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says his state's "very consequential" lawsuit against the mandates in the health insurance law could lead to a fiscal nightmare in 34 states.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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