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North Carolinians who are on the State Health Plan (SHP) for their medical insurance will not see an increase in their premiums for the 2024 benefit year. State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the SHP Board of Trustees agreed to the freeze for the sixth year in a row.
Published: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“Nonbinary” patients seeking "Ken doll" nullification surgery and other horrors may rely on state-sponsored health insurance.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 6:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
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State workers in Nevada who are in enrolled in public employee healthcare plans will have to pay up to $55 more a month if they haven’t received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 3:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land.
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State treasurer says charges to state employees health insurance should be transparent.
Published: Saturday, April 17th, 2021 @ 7:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Health care is a right, not a privilege — and ensuring that every single American has access to the quality, affordable health care they need is a national imperative.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 8:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressional Democrats are trying to take away what little potential flexibility states have over their health insurance markets.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper met with people from across the Piedmont and western regions of the state to hear firsthand the choices that they are forced to make because they cannot access affordable, quality health insurance.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:38 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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State taxpayers would save hundreds of millions of dollars in health insurance costs, thanks to a unanimous ruling Tuesday from the N.C. Court of Appeals
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 8:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell's proposed cost-cutting reforms for the State Health Plan have drawn praise from state employees' representatives and a nationally recognized free-market health finance expert
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 8:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An angry teacher on Facebook wondered why those in charge of the State Health Plan “felt the need…to remind us that we are funded by taxpayers” on the new insurance ID cards
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some lawmakers hope to allow family farmers, small farm-related businesses, and others to band together for more affordable health coverage. The move could help hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurance provider, is giving $159,000 to five counties to cut debt in their school lunch programs
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 7:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's largest health insurance company is removing a community hospital in Stokes County from its network after an alleged scheme to score millions in insurance revenue
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As reported by the N&O today, the State Treasurer’s office this week released updated figures for the state retiree pension fund and health insurance benefits
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N.C. Department of Justice is considering how to respond to a Superior Court judge's ruling that the state unconstitutionally charged health insurance premiums to state retirees
Published: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Critics questioned whether a recent state audit attributing a 9 percent savings in Medicaid costs to the nonprofit Community Care of North Carolina was a useful guide to policymakers weighing reforms in the government health insurance program covering 1.4 million poor, elderly, and disabled North Ca
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate is preparing to finalize a bill approved last year by the state's House of Representatives mandating more universal health insurance coverage for autism services.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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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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That sounds like a simple statement, and one with which most people would readily agree. In reality, however, the statement has multiple meanings. How you read it can say a lot about your views on Obamacare, health insurance, and reform initiatives.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is among a number of state governments plagued by massive unfunded liabilities for state retirees' health insurance benefits, and, like many of its counterparts, it is placing greater responsibility for costs on members in a movement known as medical consumerism.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 @ 10:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the second time in recent weeks, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable to plaintiffs seeking to block the IRS from collecting tax penalties from employers in states such as North Carolina that do not have a state health insurance exchange under Obamacare. If any of several lawsuits...
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 8:02 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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One of the state's largest business organizations is keeping a close eye on two federal lawsuits challenging the authority of the IRS to collect Obamacare taxes in states, including North Carolina, that did not set up state-run health insurance exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 1:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Does North Carolina have a lot to learn from other states and countries? Just about everyone active in state politics would say yes to this question, depending on...
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2013 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Buoyed by Gov. Pat McCrory's announcement that he does not support expanding Medicaid rolls or creating a state-run health insurance exchange, a state House committee voted Tuesday over Democrats' objections in favor of...
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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First in Freedom documents problems linked to both key pieces of Obamacare
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 3:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The day before the Obama administration's deadline for states to declare whether they will create a state health insurance exchange to comply with the president's national health reform law.
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2012 @ 11:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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What a sad day when the Supreme Court loses sight of what the Constitution's purpose is to protect the rights of individuals, and not to take them away.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This month the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down one of the most consequential decisions in its history by ruling on the constitutionality of Obamacare.
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 @ 10:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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