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President Donald J. Trump will never allow the left’s radical Medicare-for-All to destroy the American healthcare system.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As we near the end of President Trump’s third year in office, it’s worth looking back at some of the health care policies enacted by this administration so far.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ten years ago, the passage of Obamacare vastly increased the federal government’s role in our health–care system.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2019 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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A North Carolina doctor filed a lawsuit Monday in North Carolina Superior Court to overturn the state's Certificate of Need (CON) laws
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 4:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, I filed Senate Bill 410 (Marine Aquaculture Development Act) - here in North Carolina there is a significant amount of potential for the aquaculture industry to become a greater source of income and economic prosperity
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 @ 7:14 pm
By: Bill Cook
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During the fall campaign in North Carolina, the presidential and gubernatorial races captured most of the attention
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two reports this week from the John Locke Foundation discuss the costly unintended consequences of state government mandates.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 10:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers can boost patient choice, put downward pressure on health care costs, and reduce red tape by repealing the state's certificate-of-need law
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers grappling with Medicaid reform should combine elements of competing proposals in the state House and Senate to give patients more choices while remaining accountable to taxpayers, a panel of experts at an April 13 briefing for policy makers and industry officials said.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past four years, state policymakers in Raleigh have adopted a series of sweeping changes in public policy, including a new state tax code, school choice, new energy policies, election laws, and historic reforms of the regulatory process. Some North Carolinians have welcomed these...
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In previous newsletters, I've discussed how both ends of the political spectrum strive to reform our nation's health care delivery system by following through with the "triple aim" concept of former CMS administrator Dr. Donald Berwick - increase access to care, reduce health care costs, and...
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2014 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though he lacks the blessing of the GOP leadership in Congress, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is pushing a national health care reform he says would do precisely what the GOP establishment has pushed — repealing and replacing government-driven Obamacare with a system allowing more...
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:18 am
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 2010, we rose up en masse in protest against ObamaCare. We gave the US House to the Republicans, and closed the GOP's deficit with the Democrats in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The current debate over the long-term sustainability of North Carolina's Medicaid program pits defenders of the status-quo Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) model against reformers touting Governor Pat McCrory's proposed Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 1:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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About 1.8 million North Carolinians receive Medicaid benefits, with federal and state taxpayers contributing more than $14 billion a year to the program. Now North Carolina and other states are trying to figure out how to ensure quality care and outcomes, while reducing costs. Katherine Restrepo...
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina is an innovative approach to redesign the state's Old Medicaid system into a safety net that improves patients' health and saves taxpayer dollars.
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 10:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina is an innovative approach to redesign the state's Old Medicaid system into a safety net that improves patients' health and saves taxpayer dollars.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s most vulnerable Medicaid patients deserve a health care safety net that meets their needs and moves them from sickness to health.
Published: Monday, June 10th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's most vulnerable Medicaid patients deserve a health care safety net that meets their needs and moves them from sickness to health. North Carolina taxpayers deserve peace of mind their sacrifices to fund that safety net are not being squandered on a failing program that...
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 5:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina could save $2.7 billion a year by moving away from its primary-care focused Medicaid structure and adopting a managed-care model used in five large Florida counties, based on research by the Foundation for Government
Published: Saturday, September 22nd, 2012 @ 1:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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