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Ranks 32nd in Nation
Published: Saturday, August 10th, 2024 @ 11:21 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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On Tuesday, the House Health Committee will consider several bills that critics say are likely to raise insurance costs for consumers.
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2023 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Experts say reform would open door for safer, more convenient care
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In this blog, I’ll highlight two good pieces of health care policy set to be heard in committee soon.
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 2:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) in the case California v. Texas.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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As we near the end of President Trump’s third year in office, it’s worth looking back at some of the health care policies enacted by this administration so far.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Adults who don’t receive health insurance through their employer struggle to find affordable plans when they look to buy coverage on their own from an insurance company
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The newly elected members of the North Carolina General Assembly have hit the ground running in the legislative session
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Expanding Medicaid is a temporary, albeit insufficient, fix for the problems of high costs in the health care system.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 @ 12:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should all Americans be required to purchase health insurance? This was a major bone of contention among conservative reformers during the health care debates of the 1990s
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Heritage Foundation senior fellow Robert Moffit writes about why the recent Senate vote to eliminate the Obamacare mandate requiring people to have health insurance or face a penalty was a “wise call.”
Published: Sunday, January 7th, 2018 @ 12:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Government is bigger and more expensive than it needs to be, thanks to an economic concept called the "special interest effect."
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 @ 5:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, April 24th, 2017 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Saying the American Health Care Act “has problematic provisions [including] infringements on state sovereignty,” nine Republican members of the General Assembly have urged GOP congressional leaders to make big changes in the Obamacare replacement plan being circulated in Washington
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 8:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When a person decides to purchase life insurance they are asked about their health status and history and are, in part, charged a premium based on their answers to those questions
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2016 @ 12:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Western Carolina University senior Tyann Stubbs juggles two on-campus jobs to help pay her own way through school. And she loves her work
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2016 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has a hidden tax, and it's probably the most expensive one you've never heard of: It's called health insurance mandates
Published: Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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The 2015 legislative session has commenced, which means that the House and Senate will be hashing out their differences about how best to reform our state's Medicaid program. The Senate favors a privatization approach, where multiple managed care companies (MCOs) compete for state contracts to...
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 6:31 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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The North Carolina House released its budget plan for FY 2014-15, which would spend $21.09 billion. The total would be a 2.3 percent increase over the current fiscal year’s budget.
Published: Saturday, June 21st, 2014 @ 8:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the attorneys hoping to dissolve Obamacare through a lawsuit challenging the health reform act's Independent Payment Advisory Board said the deaths and mismanagement recently reported at Veterans Administration hospitals are "a great preview" of what lies in store if the health care law is...
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Asked about the bipartisan absence of House members, putting Republicans in the same camp as Democrats against a conservative cause, Collins said, "Yes, to me it's an embarrassment to conservatives whenever we are mandating things on the private market."
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina insurance policy holders will pick up $10.5 million in additional premium costs if a bill requiring expanded coverage of chiropractic services recommended April 21 by a legislative study committee is approved in the General Assembly's short session opening this week.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Barack Obama was right about health insurance mandates. Back in 2008, I mean, when he was competing with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. The two senators disagreed about whether, as part of comprehensive health insurance reform, the federal government should require...
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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You're probably heard critics of Barack Obama warn that his goal is to make America more European. Each critic probably means something different by that. I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories about the president's motives. When I say that Obama is making America more like Europe, I have a...
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
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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Much has changed for the good concerning North Carolina's regulatory environment with the passage of the Regulatory Reform Act (RRA) of 2011, tort reform, medical malpractice reform, and workers' compensation reform.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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