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Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Health Care
Medicaid Expansion May Lead to Higher Hospital Prices
A new report in Health Affairs details how North Carolina's Medicaid expansion may expose patients to higher hospital bills.
Health Care
The State Shouldn’t Interfere with Blue Cross Restructuring
In the era where politics has become increasingly tribalistic, we seldom see significant bi-partisan support from leadership within both parties. The Reorganization and Economic Development Act, House Bill 346, is…
Research Brief
Health Care
DHHS Stops Reporting Covid Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status
Since last summer, the majority of Covid-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina have been to people fully vaccinated or boosted against Covid. Especially in recent weeks, fully vaccinated or boosted individuals…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
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…
Health Care
NC House Introduces Medicaid Expansion Bill
Expansion remains a bad idea for North Carolina.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
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…
Health Care
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…
Health Care
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)…
Health Care
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.
Health Care
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.
Health Care
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…
Health Care
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…