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The court voted 6-3.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 4:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Approximately 6,800 people in North Carolina have sickle cell disease, of which approximately 95% are Black or African American.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2024 @ 4:50 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining southeastern states, insurers and national leaders in health care and public health for a collaborative effort to combat the congenital syphilis crisis.
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2024 @ 9:25 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina honored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & the National Academy for State Health Policy with 2022 Medicaid Innovation Award
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 10:10 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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“Nonbinary” patients seeking "Ken doll" nullification surgery and other horrors may rely on state-sponsored health insurance.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 6:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on Thursday that it was suspending the enforcement of Democrat President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate after a federal court blocked it from being implemented pending review.
Published: Monday, July 11th, 2022 @ 11:37 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A federal court denied Democrat President Joe Biden's Department of Justice on Monday from being able to stop a temporary block on vaccine mandates on healthcare workers.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 8:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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Medicaid postpartum health care coverage will be extended from 60 days to 12 months for eligible people in North Carolina beginning April 1, 2022.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lower Costs, More Cures Act brings market-based approach and innovative solutions to lowering prescription drug costs
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 3:32 am
By: Thom Tillis
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N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper was in Charlotte Monday to welcome the Centene Corporation, a provider of managed care services for Medicaid, public, and private health plans.
Published: Sunday, June 27th, 2021 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services recently received approval to use federal matching funds to expand services for the evidence-based early childhood program, Reach Out and Read.
Published: Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 @ 9:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It’s been five years in the making, and it’s almost free from the budget stalemate.
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2019 @ 4:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, the President signed into law H.R. 3253
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 9:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Medicaid program is for those in the shadows, the most unfortunate and needy of our citizens. As discussions of expanding our state’s Medicaid program continue — and hold up the new budget — it’s worth asking: Is our current Medicaid program adequately serving those in the shadows?
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s a hard lesson for some parents to learn: Foot the bill every time your adult child runs into financial trouble, and that child is more likely to continue running into trouble.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of House Republicans is taking another whack at what they call an alternative to Medicaid expansion so uninsured North Carolina residents can obtain health coverage.
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2019 @ 4:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced the PROTECT Asbestos Victims Act, commonsense legislation that provides much-needed oversight of asbestos bankruptcy trusts to ensure victims receive fair and just compensation.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 @ 10:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A Year of Historic Action to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2018 @ 1:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's nearly impossible to discuss the cost, access, or quality of the U.S. health care system without circling back to Medicaid - the joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to those with low incomes
Published: Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three words you almost never hear from politicians is "I was wrong." I'm not one, but can admit that on the subject of Medicaid expansion I was wrong. Now our legislature should do the same.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 9:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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"Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity," writes W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2018 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the PROTECT Asbestos Victims Act, commonsense legislation that provides much-needed oversight of asbestos bankruptcy trusts to ensure victims receive just compensation
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:12 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Medicaid is the largest spending item of the roughly $53 billion flowing through state coffers this year, yet state policymakers have minimal control over the program
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a report on how the government can help to effectively reduce the prices of lifesaving drugs while stimulating innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2018 @ 8:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Should those receiving public benefits be required to do anything in return? It's not a new question, but one that is resurfacing today
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 5:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The once-floundering state Medicaid system stay within its budget for the fourth consecutive year
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2017 @ 1:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the North Carolina legislature and other federal obstacles standing in the way, Gov. Roy Cooper is relentless in attempts to expand Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health services at no cost to low-income children, parents, pregnant women, aged, blind, and disabled
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the main issues in the race for House District 41 is health insurance - specifically whether and how the state should deal with Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Freshman Republican legislator Greg Murphy's first legislative vote as a new state representative was a doozy: House Bill 2
Published: Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This N&O article takes a closer look at the financial challenges presented by the swelling ranks of senior citizens and the rising costs of long-term care
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his long-standing fight against taxpayer-funded abortion by voting for H.R. 3495, the Women’s Public Health and Safety Act.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Health policy doesn't exactly rank high on the summer reading bucket list. Let's be real - for most people, it's not all that fitting for the beach, and it surely doesn't pair well with red wine during a gossipy book-club meeting.
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For years now, legislators, policy analysts, medical providers, and lobbyists for various interest groups have been arguing about North Carolina's Medicaid program. Whether you find this argument interesting, confusing, or boring, I have some news for you: it's far from over.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In just one month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether health insurance subsidies issued under the Affordable Care Act should be distributed only to insurance companies in state-based exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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