Ongoing Medicaid reform initiatives seeking to rein in unnecessary spending and better coordinate patient care may improve North Carolina's medical assistance program to a degree, and the special interests involved ostensibly have good intentions.
Published: Sunday, August 17th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two recent federal appeals court rulings address the question of whether Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for individual-market consumers can be distributed to those purchasing insurance through federal exchanges.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The highway trust fund is running out of money and we need to do something to get the funding back up to a point where we will be able to maintain our Interstate highway system.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:24 am
By: Jim Bispo
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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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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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Senator Richard Burr understands that America’s greatest challenge is healthcare and has made it his personal mission to help find solutions to our broken healthcare system.
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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State lawmakers were presented Tuesday with a litany of potential horror stories related to the federal Affordable Care Act. At its worst, Obamacare would sock North Carolina with thousands of job losses, double-digit insurance premium increases, deep Medicare cuts to help pay for the health...
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of a bill that would repeal Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, which requires disastrous cuts to Medicare provider compensation.
Published: Monday, March 17th, 2014 @ 1:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Headlines in recent months have attracted attention to technical problems associated with HealthCare.gov, the primary website associated with the federal Affordable Care Act. While some technical issues remain to be resolved, Hadley Heath, senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum...
Published: Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Could President Obama's signature program, the Affordable Care Act, be responsible for declining rates of growth in U.S. health care spending? That's what some Obamacare advocates are claiming. To do so, however, would require that they be either embarrassingly uninformed or shamelessly dishonest...
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Conrad Flick, noted North Carolina family physician, recently appeared on a panel discussion on healthcare conducted by the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:33 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Although the 2013 legislative session produced many victories for economic freedom, a notable exception was the unwillingness of lawmakers to encourage competition and innovation in medical care.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the costly implementation of the perversely named Affordable Care Act continues to baffle, disappoint, and enrage the public, a collection of government vendors and left-wing groups has settled on a brilliant political strategy: castigate North Carolina for failing to do enough to implement the A
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Want to test your knowledge of the provisions, justifications, and implications of the Affordable Care Act? I've made it simple for you. Just answer the following yes-or-no questions, check against the correct answers, and read down to the end of this column to see what your score means.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Fund cost of operating the State Health Plan is expected to rise about $90 million from fiscal years 2013-14 to 2015-16, but that is a slower growth trend than in past years, and Obamacare will have little effect on it, officials say.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare. Medicare. Medicaid. The news is filled with healthcare stories about what's working, what's not and who's to blame. There's no denying we need information but the media noise and crowd hysteria is distracting.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 12:40 pm
By: Announcements
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In case you've been too busy with real life to keep track of the political dramas of the past two weeks, here's a brief recap.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While technical glitches on the health-insurance exchanges are getting a lot of attention, that’s not the real problem that Obamacare faces. It is fundamentally, conceptually flawed. Even if it “works,” in the sense that people navigate their way to signing up, it won’t work as originally...
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
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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Remember the TV ad with the little old lady holding up a burger and asking, "Where's the Beef?"
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The only thing the two candidates for North Carolina's District 10 congressional seat agree on is that their opponent is an extremist who will move the country in the wrong direction.
Published: Thursday, September 27th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hammering forcefully at what he called President Obama's "raid" on Medicare, divisive re-election tactics and economic policies that have put America on the edge of a fiscal cliff, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Raleigh crowd Wednesday it is imperative to elect Republican challenge
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a longtime advocate of shortening North Carolina's ballot and rationalizing the distribution of executive power in state government, I was glad to see some folks reacting to a recent News & Observer series on workers-comp evasion by calling for state agency reorganization.
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 7:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We keep hearing that the Anointed One is taking of over $700B out of the medicare trust fund to fund Obamacare. We are told that won't hurt Medicare at all because all the money is "savings" that the Dems are going to realize.
Published: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 @ 1:34 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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We are being told that some very large percentage (well over half) of the American population is partaking of (and presumably enjoying) the largess of government entitlement spending.
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2012 @ 4:06 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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While unfunded liabilities continue to garner plenty of attention in the press, I fear a lack of understanding means this attention is failing to translate into legislative action.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Illegal immigrants should not receive government funding when America is already in a financial crisis.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 @ 5:38 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
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Support groups, journaling, yoga and therapeutic massage are just some of the free programs available.
Published: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 @ 11:00 am
By: BCN
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