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Treasurer Folwell and Community Leaders Discuss How Charlotte Patients Face Lawsuits Over Medical Debt, Listen to Community Perspective on Health Care Costs
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 12:49 am
By: ENC NOW
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Treasurer Folwell and Community Leaders Discuss How Eastern North Carolina Has Some of the Worst Medical Debt in the Nation, Listen to Community Perspective on Health Care Costs
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2022 @ 3:16 am
By: ENC NOW
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State employees are no longer in immediate danger of paying out-of-network costs for their health care, but they may confront higher premiums and higher taxes later.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 1:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Donald J. Trump is delivering on his promise to bring more healthcare price and quality transparency for American patients.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Commissioners, at their April 1, 2019 meeting voted not to appoint a committee to look into controlling inmate medical costs.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 3:53 am
By: Hood Richardson
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During late September of last year I wrote an article complaining about a $346,000 medical bill for one prisoner held by Beaufort County.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2019 @ 11:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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During the fast and furious fray at the July Commissioners meeting about charging the $350,000 of surprise billing for a jail inmates medical costs to last year's expenses six commissioners suddenly started accusing me of covering up stealing in the Social Services Department.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 @ 5:20 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants UNC Health Care to post a $1 billion performance bond guaranteeing medical costs would not increase for State Health Plan participants, or hit state taxpayers in the wallet, if the system enters into a proposed partnership with Carolinas HealthCare
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A typical North Carolina medical patient would save nearly $300 a year and have more competitive options for lower-cost treatment if outdated regulations didn't exist, research shows
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2017 @ 10:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Dr. Angela Black Smith, PharmD, whose research and analysis could save the state $2.5 million a year in prescription costs, recently won recognition as a recipient of the 2016 Governor's Award for Excellence.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 2:09 am
By: Russell Allen
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North Carolina has fewer hospital beds and MRI scanners than other states, and restrains psychiatric services because of a regulatory process that protects legacy health care providers
Published: Monday, February 23rd, 2015 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Frustration with the rising cost of health care gave politicians the ammo they needed to hang this ObamaCare monstrosity around our necks.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It is easy to understand why North Carolina hospitals are adamant about keeping the state's Certificate of Need (CON) regulations locked in the law books. After all, what law better protects their fortresses from potential competitors who could possibly provide more innovative services in less...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Taxpayers and patients unnecessarily pay hundreds of millions of dollars in medical costs because of arcane regulations, turf-protective hospitals, and a state regulatory agency that opposes reforms, say physicians seeking legislative relief to open more doctor-owned same-day surgery and...
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a previous column, I noted that the Left's crusade against conservative ideas and politicians in North Carolina faces an implacable foe: the time-space continuum. Leftist predictions that reducing North Carolina's sales tax in 2011 would result in weaker economic growth have proven in...
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Scared" of the impact Obamacare may have on their businesses, some North Carolina employers are considering private health insurance exchanges as a way to continue providing medical coverage to employees at a lower cost than the mandated insurance under Obamacare. IBM recently used a private...
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you think ObamaCare is going to jack up medical costs for you and your family, wait until you get a load of the potential impact on your pets' bills for veterinary treatment.
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 @ 1:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Ms. Marcia Windley Quidley, 90, a resident of Ridgewood Manor, died Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011, at Beaufort County Medical Center.
Published: Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 @ 1:43 pm
By: Announcements
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Hospital Board gives cost/containment measures another shot
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 @ 3:42 am
By: BCN
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