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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) began sending out letters last week to up to 300,000 people who are enrolled in Medicaid’s limited Family Planning program and now qualify for full NC Medicaid benefits
Published: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 12:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After a decade of fighting it, Republicans agree on the largest entitlement expansion in state history
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina General Assembly plans to return to Raleigh Tuesday, The N.C. Healthcare Association has indicated a potential break in the standoff over certificate-of-need reform. Disagreements involving CON have helped block a deal for Medicaid expansion.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday the N.C. General Assembly’s Senate leadership announced a health care proposal that includes Medicaid expansion under the federal entitlement program, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU School of Dental Medicine earns national award for excellence in social mission
Published: Friday, April 8th, 2022 @ 11:39 am
By: ECU News Services
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"This surplus came largely out of the pockets of North Carolina citizens and they deserve to see some of it returned to them."
Published: Sunday, June 27th, 2021 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Once again, Cal Cunningham has been exposed for saying one thing when his record says another.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 @ 8:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A Senate bill to ensure visitation rights for hospital patients passed the House unanimously Thursday, June 25.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 3:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 5:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation’s research team is putting out a package of policy recommendations focused on the Coronavirus this week.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A February study released by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) lays waste to the claims by Medicaid expansion advocates that expansion would translate into an economic boon for state hospitals.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 12:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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More than a thousand jobs and a massive reform are at stake now that the budget stalemate has thrown Medicaid transformation into chaos.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2020 @ 4:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The New York Post reports this week that the state of New York is facing a massive budget hole of roughly $6 billion.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 9:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday, Nov. 19, that Medicaid transformation would be placed on hold indefinitely.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2019 @ 1:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina would reverberate throughout the state in disparate yet significant ways, affecting rural communities, people without jobs, as well as the uninsured and insured alike.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 7:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For people looking to sink talk of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, Ohio is the go-to state to paint as a Medicaid debacle.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A week ago, the state Senate passed its version of a $23.9 billion General Fund budget for the next fiscal year. The Senate and House still must resolve their differences in a conference report, pass it, and send it to Gov. Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Although the North Carolina House has approved its version of a biennial budget, there’s a lot that North Carolinians can’t yet know about how much will be spent, and on what, over the next two years.
Published: Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 @ 8:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Medicaid Momentum: Pitt County Commissioners Push for Medicaid Expansion as List of Supporters GrowsDozens of health care and business leaders support expansion and urge the legislature to close coverage gap.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 11:35 am
By: Governor's Office
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Top-ranking senators have introduced an omnibus health-care bill that would add severely disabled people to the Medicaid rolls and abolish restrictive certificate of need laws.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina's largest insurer has brokered an agreement with three national health care companies to open intensive primary care clinics this year in areas lacking services.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The governor's behind it, and state Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen is for it. Some freshmen legislators have made it a priority, some leaders in the N.C. House think it's a good idea, and 32 states have implemented a version of it.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 8:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released a spending report showing that the rate of health care spending growth slowed for the second straight year
Published: Thursday, December 13th, 2018 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted in favor of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, bipartisan legislation to combat the national opioid crisis
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 1:36 am
By: Thom Tillis
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If North Carolina Democrats hoped - and North Carolina Republicans feared - that a Roy Cooper administration would represent a clean break from the administration of former Gov. Pat McCrory, both sides have good reason to revise their expectations
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2018 @ 1:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Left would lead you to believe that Medicaid expansion would provide low-income North Carolinians with top-notch medical care, create tens of thousands of jobs, and magically be paid for by "someone else."
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 12:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Health policy experts disagree whether significant free-market reforms can supplant Obamacare despite the program's rocky decline
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 12:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians had much to celebrate over the Independence Day weekend
Published: Friday, July 7th, 2017 @ 1:04 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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A Senate panel passed legislation Thursday to accelerate mental health Medicaid reform and free up nearly $1 billion in frozen assets to provide more behavioral health services
Published: Sunday, June 18th, 2017 @ 6:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just a few days after his midnight swearing-in, new Governor Roy Cooper tells a public audience today that he wants to bypass state law and ask the feds to expand North Carolina’s already over-crowded Medicaid program
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2017 @ 9:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Even though Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to expand North Carolina’s Medicaid program unilaterally has been halted in federal court, some GOP lawmakers say they are open to considering a limited enrollment increase
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2017 @ 5:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, is confident President-elect Trump would overturn any unlawful agreement to fast-track the state's Medicaid program
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 12:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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