The last time chiropractors got a bill passed in North Carolina to expand health insurance coverage for their services, they gave House Speaker Jim Black $30,000 in illegal cash payouts – including one transaction in an IHOP restroom. The General Assembly repealed it after Black resigned as part of the post-scandal cleanup. But the chiropractors are back again, this time without gifts we assume, hoping to have copays legislated down to the level of primary care physicians.
“That’s pretty expensive,” said Rep. Hugh Holliman, a Lexington Democrat and House majority leader. “The usage goes up as the copay goes down.”
