Blue Cross’ restructuring: “The devil is in the lack of details.”
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 11:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D., today highlighted changes in federal law that make obtaining insurance through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace more affordable and available to more than 100,000 additional people
Published: Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 @ 8:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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The converging crises our nation faces today have exposed and exacerbated inequities that have long been with us.
Published: Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 @ 12:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Gov. Cooper Encourages North Carolinians Without Health Insurance To Take Action by Dec. 15 DeadlineNorth Carolinians who still need to enroll or re-enroll should visit HealthCare.gov
Published: Sunday, December 13th, 2020 @ 2:44 pm
By: Governor's Office
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James Capretta of the American Enterprise Institute explores the future of a critical piece of American health care.
Published: Saturday, November 28th, 2020 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched an online portal for primary care providers to request reimbursement for COVID-19 related costs for individuals without insurance.
Published: Monday, November 2nd, 2020 @ 6:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Doctors who fled the health insurance system to offer transparent prices and more personal care got a boost from state lawmakers.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2020 @ 12:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts wrote a research brief that provides an alternative to the current health insurance status quo.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 2:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians May Still Log On to HealthCare.gov to Select Health Insurance
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today encouraged North Carolinians who do not have health insurance to enroll for 2020 coverage through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 3:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Small businesses struggling with health-care costs could gain new bargaining power with insurers, after a controversial bill passed the House, 82-32.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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President Donald J. Trump is expanding Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs), opening new coverage options for American workers.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper met with childcare teachers at Noah’s Ark Children’s Center in Wilmington. In a roundtable discussion, teachers shared that too many of their colleagues are suffering from preventable diseases because they do not have access to health insurance.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 6:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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The newly elected members of the North Carolina General Assembly have hit the ground running in the legislative session
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 @ 9:32 pm
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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During the 2016 campaign cycle, many candidates, including Donald Trump, promised voters that they would work to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with a system that provided similar levels of protection for those individuals who are most vulnerable, lowered costs for healthcare
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 6:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On March 3rd, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare was signed into law with the promise of slowing the rising costs of health care
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The authority of the states to regulate their own insurance markets was severely curtailed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States health care system is a unique, complex web of consumers, providers, and payers. And it is expensive
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should all Americans be required to purchase health insurance? This was a major bone of contention among conservative reformers during the health care debates of the 1990s
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 1:24 am
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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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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The open enrollment period for health insurance plans for 2018 closes on December 15, 2017
Published: Saturday, December 9th, 2017 @ 2:53 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today encouraged North Carolinians who do not have health insurance coverage to enroll for 2018 through the Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov
Published: Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 @ 4:08 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Trump Administration announced that the federal government will no longer make Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments under the Affordable Care Act, ensuring that health insurance premiums will sky rocket in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 5:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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When a person decides to purchase life insurance they are asked about their health status and history and are, in part, charged a premium based on their answers to those questions
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's Medicaid program already covers children, pregnant mothers, the elderly, blind, disabled, etc.
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2017 @ 12:22 am
By: Bill Cook
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The Cooper administration may have lost a key ally in its attempt to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Cabinet agency that controls Medicaid
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare has failed. Almost all of its original promises have been broken
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 4:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the main issues in the race for House District 41 is health insurance - specifically whether and how the state should deal with Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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