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When the Democratic Congress and the Obama administration enacted the Affordable Care Act a decade ago, the part that got the most attention was a set of insurance exchanges where Americans could enroll in private health plans with varying degrees of subsidy.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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What some hyperpartisans now call "fake news" is in many instances neither fake nor news.
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Buck Newton and Democrat Josh Stein agreed on many topics during a debate by the attorney general candidates Tuesday night, but the dueling lawyers did it in sometimes disagreeable fashion on the details
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 @ 3:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The continuing calls to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have a seemingly unlikely ally - Medicaid Health Plans of America, the trade association representing a number of top Medicaid managed care organizations
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Houston! We have a problem. Well, actually it's not just Houston. It's Atlanta, New York, Philly, Detroit, LA, Portland, Miami, and every single city, town, village, and hamlet in the USA.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 6:04 am
By: Rod Eccles
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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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Veteran election observer Larry Sabato has a thought-provoking piece out in the latest edition of Politico Magazine.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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Remember all the brouhaha from last fall's Washington showdown and government shutdown? The dispute purportedly pitted Republicans intent on repealing Obamacare against the president and Democrats intent on preserving the legislation.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I had the opportunity for an audience with Charlotte pastor — and US Senate candidate — Mark Harris on Saturday. (I do have to commend him for not running away in terror after I introduced myself. For some reason, I scare some political candidates.)
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 12:17 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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For North Carolina liberals intent on recovering some political power in Raleigh, a funny thing happened on the way to a quorum: reality intruded on their most-cherished claims about the two biggest issues in North Carolina politics.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 2:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Following a national trend, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce in January will begin offering businesses an opportunity to reduce the cost of employee health benefits through a private exchange.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 7:09 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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Before Obamacare, before individual mandates, before exchanges, there was Medicaid. Started in 1965 under President Johnson as part of his War on Poverty, Medicaid extended health insurance coverage to low-income Americans.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Scared" of the impact Obamacare may have on their businesses, some North Carolina employers are considering private health insurance exchanges as a way to continue providing medical coverage to employees at a lower cost than the mandated insurance under Obamacare. IBM recently used a private...
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have the Republicans lost their minds by rejecting Medicaid expansion? "Yes" is the answer, according to liberal Democrats and their allied editorial writers across the state.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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The 2013 legislative session has at times been contentious, sometimes controversial, often frustrating, but in the end, very successful. This has been a good...
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An awful lot of us on the right worked hard to get Pat McCrory into the governor's mansion in Raleigh. There was a lot of excitement in 2012 about the potential for fundamental change a GOP majority and GOP governor could bring to state government.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 4:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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Critics of the state's decision to shun Medicaid expansion have maintained that a study by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine concludes that 500,000 people would be left...
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 5:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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South Carolina legislators have passed a law making it a crime for anyone in The Palmetto State to enforce the implementation of ObamaCare
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 12:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Much of the debate about the 2010 federal health care reform law involved the so-called "individual mandate," the notion that the government could force everyone to buy...
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that the General Assembly has made it clear North Carolina will not set up state insurance exchanges or expand Medicaid under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, I'm going to remind Carolina Journal readers what they know about the complicated issues involved that readers and viewers of...
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gunga Din was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in literature -- and later in movies. He was a poor, hapless, shuffling, kowtowing, water-carrying man-servant to some British soldiers in India.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2013 @ 11:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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As the new General Assembly gets under way, there are lots of issues to be considered. Repaying the unemployment insurance debt owed to the federal government...
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 7:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate tentatively passed legislation Monday night to opt out of participation in several expensive provisions of Obamacare.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Like the throngs looking for smoke at The Vatican, the Carolinas media waited breathlessly for North Carolina governor-elect Pat McCrory's address to The North Carolina Bankers' Association.
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2013 @ 4:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's interesting to see what's left of North Carolina's mainstream media thoroughly inspecting Pat McCrory's transition team, agenda, and appointees.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 1:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Businesses have been downsizing, closing facilities, implementing employee layoffs, and instituting hiring freezes in anticipation of the impending fiscal and regulatory nightmare known as ObamaCare.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 7:15 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Friday is the deadline for the states to let the Feds know if they will be setting up health exchanges -- Phase One in the implementation of ObamaCare.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 1:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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