Maher was chief executive at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 5:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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Katherine Pauline (McCraw) Williams, age 80, a long-time resident of Washington, NC died Wednesday August 23, 2023 at home.
Published: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 9:22 am
By: Announcements
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Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) said in a statement Sunday evening that her son was arrested over the weekend during a far-left riot against police officers.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 10:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Chad Adelman and Katherine Silberstein of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University seem to think so. That’s the topic they tackle in a new Edunomics brief.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Katherine Watts Swanner Adams, age 93, died Tuesday, December 1, 2020.
Published: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 @ 10:04 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Roy Cooper has appointed S. Katherine (Kat) Burnette to preside in Judicial District 9
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2018 @ 4:28 am
By: Governor's Office
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On Sunday, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on a supremely important development: a male professor made a joke about "lingerie" in an elevator - an elevator containing a gender studies professor.
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 2:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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Ms. Katherine Anna Dutton, age 94, a resident of Sandy Meadows Road Chocowinity, NC died Sunday, February 26, 2017 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2017 @ 5:30 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Katherine Futrell Westbrook, age 74, a resident of 105 Pine Street, Washington, NC was promoted to the church triumphant Monday January 2, 2017
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 3:05 pm
By: Announcements
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This past Monday evening, I spoke on a panel at Wake Forest University's School of Law on whether North Carolina should expand Medicaid, the medical assistance program originally designed for low-income parents, children, elderly, blind, and disabled. Despite the enthusiastic, overwhelmingly...
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's failing co-ops (consumer-operated and oriented health plans) simply reinforce the fact that government intervention in health care creates all sorts of problems.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 6:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical providers will tell you that about 75 percent of health care can be provided in a primary care setting. Yet rising health insurance premiums and narrower networks are making it a burden for patients to access basic health care.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been dumped into the individual marketplace by their employers have the opportunity to sign up or renew their...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The excessive amount of government intervention that has been entrenched in our nation's health care system is curiously pushing medical providers to channel this negative energy into positive solutions - ones in which physicians are either scaling back or cutting off their relationships...
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the World War II era, workers have benefited from a rather large implicit tax subsidy on health coverage provided by their employers. Every dollar an employee spends from earned income is taxed, but every dollar spent on health care is not. Those who purchase health plans on their own lose...
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The medical code overkill is now here. After a four-year delay, the US health care system has crossed over to an updated medical diagnosis coding system endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), formally known as the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases, or ICD-10.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After an 80-day extension costing taxpayers well over $1 million, the North Carolina House and Senate chambers have finally reached a tentative budget agreement with a price tag of roughly $22 billion - a fiscally conservative budget considering that spending increased by only 3.1 percent which...
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health policy doesn't exactly rank high on the summer reading bucket list. Let's be real - for most people, it's not all that fitting for the beach, and it surely doesn't pair well with red wine during a gossipy book-club meeting.
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health care policy decisions usually come as federal dictates, so it's a rare opportunity when state legislators have full authority to grant North Carolinians more freedom over their health care options.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2015 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Crafting a politically feasible health care reform that steers away from Obamacare's massive redistribution of health is more than a desirable component for any serious Republican presidential contender's platform. It is a necessity.
Published: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 @ 7:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators involved with the certificate-of-need debate are probably overwhelmed with conflicting studies on whether the regulatory program should stay, be reduced, or go altogether.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 3:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators involved with the Certificate of Need (CON) debate are probably overwhelmed with conflicting studies on whether the regulatory program should stay, be reduced, or go altogether.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 4:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) health insurance exchanges are just one mechanism to expand coverage that primarily benefits low-income individual market policyholders and those with pre-existing conditions who cannot afford or access employer-sponsored health insurance.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 2:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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It's going to take a while longer for the North Carolina Legislature to pass its two-year budget. Part of the hold up will be finalizing an agreement on reforming the state's certificate of need (CON) law, which requires health systems and medical providers to first obtain a hall pass from the...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 9:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The prescription for improving North Carolina's Medicaid program has been a repetitive talking point for the past two years. The initial game plan back in April 2013 was for the state to contract with at least three private managed care organizations (MCOs) to take on full risk for managing...
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 9:18 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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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 Raleigh Chamber of Commerce recently sponsored a health care breakfast panel with three North Carolina hospital CEOs talking about how competition brings out the best in their health systems. Competition is healthy. Competition is a beautiful thing.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last Monday, the John Locke Foundation hosted a thoughtful health care forum where three expert panelists offered insight on the status of Kansas, Louisiana, and Florida's Medicaid reforms. Featured speakers included Kansas Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer, a pediatric plastic surgeon and leader of...
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday's front page of the News & Observer features the North Carolina Hospital Association, a free-market lobbyist, and legislators battling over pending legislation that could potentially terminate the state's highly bureaucratic Certificate of Need (CON) law. Senator Tom Apodaca favors...
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 3:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce sponsored a health care breakfast panel where three North Carolina hospital CEOs talked about how competition brings out the best in their health systems. Competition is healthy. Competition is a beautiful thing.
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's been a little over one week since the House filed HB 200, which would loosen up the state's Certificate of Need (CON) law - a regulatory burden requiring medical providers to ask permission from the state and their competitors before expanding their businesses.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 9:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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