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Blue Cross’ restructuring: “The devil is in the lack of details.”
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 11:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
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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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In the era where politics has become increasingly tribalistic, we seldom see significant bi-partisan support from leadership within both parties. The Reorganization and Economic Development Act, House Bill 346, is one exception.
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 3:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s decade of economic success deserves celebration. Even more so, however, it is worth applauding the important steps toward reform that state lawmakers have undertaken over the past decade.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Jan. 19, 2022, the North Carolina Court of Appeals granted a request from two insurance providers to voluntarily dismiss appeals of their suit over contracts awarded for NC Medicaid Managed Care by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 11:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump on Protecting Seniors with Diabetes
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 @ 11:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump on Honesty and Transparency in Healthcare Prices
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 2:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It’s no secret that Americans pay more for health care than any other industrialized country in the world
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On March 3rd, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare was signed into law with the promise of slowing the rising costs of health care
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sloan Insurance, established in 1950 in Washington, NC, is proud and privileged to have long served Beaufort County and the northeastern North Carolina region.
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 10:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), along with 35 of his colleagues, sent a letter to President Trump highlighting the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the United States and outlining how President Trump can improve the agreement
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 1:29 am
By: Thom Tillis
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North Carolina's Democrat Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin publicly denounced Obamacare Tuesday, sharing his concerns over the law's harmful impact on the marketplace and North Carolina families. While Commissioner Goodwin joins the chorus of experts and officials voicing their opposition to...
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2016 @ 12:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The campaign estimates that 1,300 filed into the Gov. Jim Holshouser Building on the State Fairgrounds to listen to Rubio, who is on North Carolina's March 15 presidential preference primary ballot
Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical technology that seemed relegated to science fiction is at hand, but fast-moving innovations are threatened by established interests and government regulations, said a panel of medical and academic experts at the State Policy Network's recent annual meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 2:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the weeks leading up to Walker's February 3 state budget address, the governor leaked his plan to cut the system's budget by $300 million during 2016 and 2017. (The university system made up about 19 percent of the state's overall spending in 2013-15.) The president of the system, Ray Cross...
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 1:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As a fan of the free market, I find myself a little torn on the issue of net neutrality The government wants to step in on the Internet service provider industry to ensure "equal treatment" for everyone and everything on the Internet.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 11:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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Wake up, people: An insidious corporate conspiracy is afoot, and it has a nefarious goal - forcing you to buy health insurance policies that you were choosing to purchase anyway. At least that’s what Sen. Kay Hagan and other Democrats scrambling to defend Obamacare after its clunky rollout are...
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2013 @ 12:03 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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Perhaps you've seen the current TV ad with the woman lambasting Obamacare, saying the government is incapable of making healthcare choices for you and me.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 @ 3:37 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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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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Critics of the state's decision to shun Medicaid expansion have maintained that a study by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine concludes that 500,000 people would be left...
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 5:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory hopes to inject market-based solutions into the state's costly Medicaid system, shifting the burden of controlling systemic budget overruns from...
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 1:47 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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The popular image of Medicaid is that of a small program that provides basic but good-quality medical care to a limited, impoverished segment of North Carolina’s population – and that politicians have skimped on funding it.
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2012 @ 8:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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