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Hospitals have called the treasurer’s bluff. The deadline for hospital signups onto the State Health Plan expired Monday, yet the plan remains bereft of major hospital networks.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 5:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fresh off N.C. Department of Insurance approval of cost-reducing reforms, Treasurer Dale Folwell is optimistic doctors and hospitals will join a new State Health Plan provider network.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal landscape for a major health insurance reform shifted dramatically Thursday with a decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2019 @ 11:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Government programs such as welfare and other social means-tested programs characterize very well the government's general policy towards poverty: Make individuals "comfortable" in their poverty rather than incentivize them to become self-sufficient.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Health policy experts say President Donald Trump could rekindle Obamacare repeal efforts by killing the handouts insulating Congress from the program's costs
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 @ 2:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health policy experts disagree whether significant free-market reforms can supplant Obamacare despite the program's rocky decline
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 12:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrat candidate for North Carolina's 13th Congressional district, Bruce Davis, continues to praise Obamacare and bolster his support while premiums more than double and hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians are now without care
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 11:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has a hidden tax, and it's probably the most expensive one you've never heard of: It's called health insurance mandates
Published: Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is concerned that insurers "have left health insurance markets in droves due to the increased burdens" of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 3:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Flaws built into the Affordable Care Act are leading to an older, sicker mix of insurance policyholders in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 2:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Already socked with rising premium costs due to Obamacare, Southern Elevator has delayed planned growth and job creation as it contemplates up to $800,000 in added annual health insurance costs a year from now, when employer mandates for medium-size businesses kick in.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some of the House Democrats' most vocal advocates for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina have filed House Bill 1083, committing the state to add more of its poorest residents to the government health insurance program.
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina insurance policy holders will pick up $10.5 million in additional premium costs if a bill requiring expanded coverage of chiropractic services recommended April 21 by a legislative study committee is approved in the General Assembly's short session opening this week.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 6:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Though a League of Women Voters presentation on the Affordable Care Act on Monday sounded more like talking points from the Obama administration than a current assessment of the national healthcare law's impacts and flaws, some uninsured people in attendance said the session was informative.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 7:35 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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As the enrollment period for Obamacare experiences a rocky start, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says his state's "very consequential" lawsuit against the mandates in the health insurance law could lead to a fiscal nightmare in 34 states.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Individual health insurance premiums in North Carolina would spike as much as 80 percent on average due to the effects of Obamacare mandates if plans submitted by Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina receive federal approval as expected.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Published reports that North Carolina must pay $181 million to the federal government annually as a consequence of failing to set up a state-run health exchange under Obamacare are false, leaving a spokesman...
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 @ 10:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid growing sentiment by conservatives that states can derail Obamacare by refusing to create health care exchanges, Gov.-elect Pat McCrory says he has not decided whether to join other Republican governors in following that path.
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 @ 12:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Imagine you get a new job with good pay and excellent benefits. In fact, the health insurance coverage is the most generous you've seen. You pay nothing for coverage while you are working, and after a set number of years, you can get free coverage in your retirement years as well.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 5:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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