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Axios is reporting that North Carolina Senate Republicans are expected to file a bill that would expand Medicaid in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Especially during an election season, taxpayers must be wary of calls to expand government
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Morales Burke is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years of experience helping to lead government agencies through complex challenges.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 6:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump will never allow the left’s radical Medicare-for-All to destroy the American healthcare system.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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And thank you very much also to a man named Matt Schlapp. What a job he's done.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 4:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Heritage Foundation senior fellow Robert Moffit writes about why the recent Senate vote to eliminate the Obamacare mandate requiring people to have health insurance or face a penalty was a “wise call.”
Published: Sunday, January 7th, 2018 @ 12:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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National Medicaid policy analysts and North Carolina legislative leaders believe Gov. Roy Cooper has taken an extremely unwise course to expand the state's Medicaid rolls
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2017 @ 12:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thanks to President Barack Obama’s debut as a contributor for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the “public option” has made its way back into the great health care debate
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 10:43 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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Last week's newsletter highlighted the fiscal impact on North Carolina if the legislature agreed to opt for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. This week, I'll touch on three critical human costs...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:14 am
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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The 2015 legislative session has commenced, which means that the House and Senate will be hashing out their differences about how best to reform our state's Medicaid program. The Senate favors a privatization approach, where multiple managed care companies (MCOs) compete for state contracts to...
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This Halloween, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) customers were spooked by skyrocketing premiums when opening their 2015 rate notification letters for their non-group health plans. While it turns out that the mailings provided incorrect information for an estimated 38,000...
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When it comes to reforming our nation's health care system, both ends of the political spectrum point to the "triple aim" - reduce health care costs, improve quality and access, and increase individuals' overall health.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 6:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Converting the federal portion of North Carolina's Medicaid program into an annual block grant would go a long way toward limiting Medicaid's unpredictable annual cost overruns.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 11:40 am
By: John Richard Furlough
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Converting the federal portion of North Carolina's Medicaid program into an annual block grant would go a long way toward limiting Medicaid's unpredictable annual cost overruns.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With a nationwide price tag of almost half a trillion dollars, Medicaid is the largest public health insurer in the United States.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 4:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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State AARP officials Friday rolled out their 2014 legislative priorities, and among them were safeguarding Medicare from cost-cutting, expanding Medicaid, and helping more seniors not yet eligible for Medicare to enroll in the federal health exchange. At the Raleigh event, AARP leaders also...
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Want to test your knowledge of the provisions, justifications, and implications of the Affordable Care Act? I've made it simple for you. Just answer the following yes-or-no questions, check against the correct answers, and read down to the end of this column to see what your score means.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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People who sign up for health insurance on the new Obamacare exchanges may qualify for subsidies. The subsidy amount one receives is determined by the individual's projected annual household income for 2014.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 6:58 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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Despite the fact that North Carolina has rejected expanding Medicaid to some citizens - fewer than 500,000 - the state has not rejected the federal health law's Medicaid expansion in its entirety. North Carolina has, in fact, expanded its broken entitlement program.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2013 @ 6:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax subsidies in Obamacare could push at least half of privately insured, lower-income North Carolinians into the federal health exchange and off of private coverage, critics of the federal health reform law say.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the run-up to the federal budget sequester, President Barack Obama tipped his hand about a seemingly small matter that will actually have a big effect on his signature domestic-policy initiative, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I've previously discussed, one key issue in the recent debate over expanding North Carolina's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act involved estimating how many new Medicaid enrollees would truly have been uninsured without it.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 3:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent months, liberal advocacy groups have conducted a concerted attack against the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Washington, D.C.- based nonpartisan public-policy group created in 1973 that promotes federalism, free markets, and limited government.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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