The North Carolina State Health Plan and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy Find that the Majority of North Carolina's Hospitals Are Overcharging Patients While Profiting Off Medicare
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 9:17 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Over the course of 34 years penning a column on North Carolina politics and public policy, I’ve seen it all.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Public Policy Polling released a new poll reflecting a divide among North Carolinians over the 2020 elections for president and governor.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 11:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's easy to endorse evidence-based policymaking when you assume it will reinforce your existing beliefs, and to assume that your adversaries are the ones whose policies will fail the evidentiary test.
Published: Saturday, January 5th, 2019 @ 3:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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any discussion of public policy, I think it is impossible to talk intelligently about questions like "good enough" or "fair enough" without asking first "by what standard?"
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized country but doesn't get better results, as measured by average life expectancy
Published: Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Peer pressure has been the reason, or at least the rationalization, for many a youthful indiscretion - not that I would know from personal experience
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 3:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you believe the political debate in North Carolina and the rest of the country has grown coarse, predictable, and unproductive, you're not alone
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers."
Published: Thursday, May 11th, 2017 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC NAACP President William Barber has popped into the news again, as he tries to do whenever TV cameras are turned on
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Try something new? I'm all for it. But whether you are talking about changing your diet, changing your career, or changing your government's public policy, it's often a good idea to proceed in stages.
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2016 @ 3:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the last two years, academics and scholars of public policy have identified North Carolina as a state with an overly complex criminal code that can ensnare small businesses, farmers, and individuals who unknowingly fail to comply with regulatory rules. In 2014, Professor Jeff Welty of the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina features "undoubtedly the premier governor's race of the country" for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval ratings, said Tom Jensen, director of the Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 6:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives and libertarians often serve as allies in public policy debates, but they tend to diverge on some hot-button issues.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 5:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As government agencies continue to push for growth, with the help of their special-interest allies and mainstream media outlets, advocates for free markets and limited government have to work hard to get their messages heard in the public policy debate.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those who advocate rational public policy, based on a thorough understanding of the principles of human action and the benefits of voluntary exchange, are bound to be disappointed much of the time.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 @ 1:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that if we discuss a problem long enough we can come up with a solution? It doesn't work that way with public policy issues, especially in the selection of judges.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 4:43 am
By: Tom Campbell
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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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During the 2014 campaign season, polling organizations issued dozens of surveys of North Carolina voters. If you read them carefully, you spotted the opening that Thom Tillis would later seize to upset Kay Hagan in the U.S. Senate race. A careful reading also revealed that Democrats were unlikely...
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 1:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of my favorite modern historians, the late Rufus Fears at the University of Oklahoma, was fond of saying that “ideas make history.”
Published: Friday, October 10th, 2014 @ 7:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first and only time I ever helped take a political survey was during my undergraduate days at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill back in the 1980s. I was one of many journalism students who made phone calls on behalf of the Carolina Poll, a regular survey of North Carolinians on...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Early next year, the John Locke Foundation will be celebrating our 25th anniversary.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dean Baker is an economist who co-directs a left-wing group in Washington called the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Liberal groups in North Carolina and elsewhere often cite Baker as an authority on the effects of public policy on economic growth.
Published: Monday, July 14th, 2014 @ 2:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public Policy Polling is out with some new numbers on the highly-watched US Senate race here in good ol' NC.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ideas drive public policy. During the last couple of years, North Carolina has begun to implement sound ideas to reform taxes, transportation, regulation, energy, education, Medicaid, and more. Good policy leads to more economic freedom, and that leads North Carolina in the right direction.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents key Obamacare flaws and offers alternatives for addressing health care needs.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the fact that the term has no meaning, politicians from both major parties and partisans of various ideological stripes tend to use it regularly when discussing budget issues. "Our budget plan includes full funding for community college enrollment." "We're rallying to restore full funding...
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The voter identification provision in North Carolina's new election law has drawn considerable attention from across the country. Democrats have, of course, been highly critical of it.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Part of my job involves commissioning, reading, interpreting, and writing about public policy research. As I began researching my 2012 book on North Carolina's economy, Our Best Foot Forward, I found myself reading or re-reading dozens of scholarly studies, published in academic or professional...
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I get these political positions from this Democrat public servant that the state Republican Party feels incapable, or possibly too incompetent, to challenge, and I wonder whatever happened to the supposed integrity in people like Attorney Roy Cooper.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is no public policy debate in which the language has been manipulated more than in the case of global warming. In fact, the language has been...
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A poll by the left-wing Public Policy Polling firm of Durham suggests that a grassroots, Tea Party-backed amateur candidate and the president pro tem of the State Senate would perform the strongest against incumbent US Senator Kay Hagan (D).
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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