The Senate on Tuesday rejected a last-minute amendment that would expand Medicaid eligibility, and with 34-10 bipartisan support passed a bill making sweeping changes to the government insurance program for the poor, elderly, and disabled.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 3:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After the Obama administration issued overreaching EPA rules and regulations which could cause electricity costs to rise and hurt families across North Carolina, Governor McCrory announced he would sue the federal government to stop the rules.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 5:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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At face value, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) granted health insurance companies a pretty sweet deal. People are required to purchase their products under the law's individual mandate.
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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ObamaCare is crippling the economy and killing what has been the greatest health care system in the world. And the drivebys and the politicians are focused on the Confederate flag.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 6:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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SCOTUS may have saved Obamacare from having to operate as written, but the landmark decision on King v Burwell has not deterred those on the right side of things from focusing on making health insurance (and more importantly health care) more affordable for more Americans.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 6:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15-member panel created through Obamacare to cut Medicare payments.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 2:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) spoke on the Senate floor to discuss the ever-failing Affordable Care Act and why President Obama’s current “one-size-fits-all” approach is simply not affordable and will not help deliver a health care system that works for everyone.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 9:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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It's rate-filing season for health insurance companies, and this week marked the deadline for carriers to disclose and explain any proposed rate increases of ten percent or more for 2016 Obamacare plans sold on the individual market. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina made the cut.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The tax foundation has just published a report analyzing the various excise taxes levied on beer in all 50 states. North Carolina comes in the 8th highest, levying a $.62 per gallon tax on those who enjoy having a couple of cold ones on a hot Saturday afternoon after mowing the lawn...
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) announced that its customers covered under the President’s Affordable Care Act will face an average 25.7 percent premium rate increase next year.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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The United States economy expanded at .2% for the first quarter, 2015, which is better than zero expansion in GDP (Gross Domestic Product), which is better than negative expansion, but not an economy that anyone should be proud of; certainly not the Obama Administration.
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 1:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus) has introduced a bill that ought to get some tongues wagging.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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That’s right. Our license tags advertise us as “First In Flight.” But, thanks to ObamaCare, we are speeding our way toward being “First In Dependence.”
Published: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 6:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) today issued the following statement on the five-year anniversary President Obama signed ObamaCare into law.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 11:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It looks as if the recent U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in King v. Burwell transpired as expected. While all justices must follow the golden rule that a statute cannot be interpreted in isolation but instead must be read in full context, there were differing opinions as to whether Congress...
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 10:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives have spent much time in recent years talking about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and opinion editor at Forbes, has a different idea. Roy issued a report in 2014 titled...
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal, government-run, i.e., single-payer, health care system. While this may be true, the U.S. system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We all remember the famous cartoons from our childhood. Lucy was always faking sincerity - promising to hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 5:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v Burwell, where the plaintiffs are not seeking to challenge Obamacare, but for the federal health law to operate as written.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2015 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal government run, i.e., single payer, health care system. While this may be true, the US system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's original second enrollment period to #GetCovered has just about come to a close. (It was supposed to end on Sunday, but the administration announced this week that they will be opening a new special enrollment period during tax season.) The Obama Administration has been chirping...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Obamacare continues to flood the health care sector with more taxes and mandates, it's simultaneously driving insurers and health care providers to increase price transparency. Because the law's pricey regulations are either driving employers to push more benefit cost sharing onto employees...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted for H.R. 596, To Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Renee Ellmers (Ellmers for Congress)Salon's Joan Walsh leaped into the breach today to defend the honor of our very own Big GovtBarbie.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:31 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The 2015 legislative session has commenced, which means that the House and Senate will be hashing out their differences about how best to reform our state's Medicaid program. The Senate favors a privatization approach, where multiple managed care companies (MCOs) compete for state contracts to...
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 6:31 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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To kick off the New Year, the Cato Institute hosted its ninth annual health policy conference, where I and other attendees were briefed heavily on the status and potential implications of King v. Burwell - better known as one of the Obamacare "subsidy lawsuits."
Published: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 @ 9:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To kick off the New Year, the Cato Institute hosted its 9th annual health policy conference, where I and other attendees were heavily briefed on the status and potential implications of King V Burwell - better known as one of the Obamacare "subsidy lawsuits."
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As of this writing, the price of gasoline in the Raleigh area has reached lows of below $2.10 a gallon, and many states are seeing prices well under $2.00. Globally, in the last year, the per barrel price of oil has fallen from over $100 a barrel to about $45 with the arrow still pointing downward.
Published: Thursday, January 15th, 2015 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced he is co-sponsoring the Forty Hours Is Full Time Act, S.30, to require the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to define a “full-time employee” as someone who works 40 hours per week.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last week, yet another study claiming that expanding Medicaid in North Carolina will create tens of thousands of jobs was released and dutifully reported by the media. The findings of such studies, however, are based upon a fatally flawed assumption that Medicaid coverage equates to access to...
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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