Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Medicaid Expansion: Markets, Not Government, Would Deliver Better Results
Medicaid expansion is a government intervention created to address problems caused by previous interventions. Government artificially inflating demand while restricting supply has resulted in unaffordable prices and a lack of…
NC House Introduces Medicaid Expansion Bill
Expansion remains a bad idea for North Carolina.
New-Normaling: How They Try to Get You to Accept Bad Policy Outcomes
Preface: The political class has drifted far from Lincoln’s vision of a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” — something that those words and the solemn…
Blaming the Unvaccinated for Vaccine Side Effects?
A newly published journal article available from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s PubMed Central (PMC) repository offers — to put it mildly — a novel reason for the averred…
The CDC Quietly Removed Key “Facts” About mRNA Vaccines
Read the whole thing. Two changes I'd like to highlight here are (a) changes to the CDC's early discussion about "temporary discomfort" from the injection and, even more importantly, (b)…
Cooper Right About CON, But For the Wrong Reason
Cooper is right when he urges hospital leaders to drop their opposition to CON repeal. But he is doing so for the wrong reason.
Archaic CON Laws Standing in the Way of Medical Care Access in Buncombe County
Such an archaic obstruction to investing in expanded medical care facilities would be unthinkable in a free society.
John Locke Foundation opposes Senate plan to proceed with Medicaid expansion
RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation is standing against the N.C. Senate’s vote Wednesday to expand Medicaid. Expansion is the key element of House Bill 149, slated for a vote…
Statement From Our CEO on Medicaid Expansion
“It makes zero sense for the N.C. General Assembly to consider expanding Medicaid now. At a time of rising inflation, growing shortages of critical supplies like baby formula, and other…
Reminder That Medicaid Expansion is Still Bad for North Carolina
Axios is reporting that North Carolina Senate Republicans are expected to file a bill that would expand Medicaid in North Carolina. Here's why they shouldn't.
DHHS Stops Reporting Covid Cases by Vaccination Status
DHHS data during the Covid-19 pandemic have been questionable, to say the least. From late 2021 to the present, the proportion of new Covid cases to individuals considered fully vaccinated…
Four Expensive Covid Policies That Overstayed Their Welcome
During the Covid pandemic, government concocted many costly, “temporary” policies. Many of those have lingered well past their originally promised dates and expanded beyond their stated intentions, such as progressives…