Health Care
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Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Research Brief
Health Care
Who Contracted Covid-19 in NC in December?
Over the month of December, 59.7% of new Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals. Only 5.3% of new cases were to people who…
Health Care
Pandemic of the Unvaccinated? 40% of New Covid Cases in NC Are Vaccinated
For the week ending January 1, 40% of Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were to people considered fully vaccinated.
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Health Care
Challenging North Carolina’s Pernicious and Unconstitutional Certificate of Need Law
North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law harms patients, insurers, and taxpayers by making health care more expensive and less accessible. New Bern eye surgeon Jay Singleton has filed a lawsuit…
Health Care
The CDC changed its definitions of “vaccine” and “vaccination” and keeps changing its definition of “fully vaccinated”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently changed their definitions for "vaccine" and "vaccination."
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Health Care
Who Is Contracting Covid-19 in NC?
ver the month of October, 71.4% of new Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals. Meanwhile, 26.7% of new cases were to fully vaccinated…
Health Care
The Woke Infiltrate Medical Treatment
Tevi Troy documents a disturbing development in health care. Twenty years ago, the physician Sally Satel argued in her book PC M.D. that political correctness had taken over medicine. PC…
Education
Martin Center Column Explores UNC Mental Health ‘Crisis’
Natalia Mayorga writes for the Martin Center about mental health issues at the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus. It has been two months since the start of the Fall…
Health Care
John Locke Foundation Files Brief in a Case Challenging North Carolina’s Certificate-of-Need Law
Under North Carolina law, health care providers who wish to open or expand facilities, buy various kinds of new equipment, or in some cases simply treat more patients, must first…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Theresa Opeka reports for Carolina Journal Online on some nonprofit N.C. hospitals preparing more benefits from patients while providing less care. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion argues that Democrats might win…
Research Brief
Health Care
The NC Threat-Free Index Explained
Since July 2020, the NC Threat-Free Index has provided contextualized looks at North Carolina's Covid-19 numbers that have been lacking from media and government updates. All of the statistics generated…
Health Care
31 Reasons to Suspect Covid May Have Originated in a Chinese Lab
Matt Ridley lays them out in this poetical Twitter thread: If a pandemic caused by a new bat-derived sars-like virus breaks out in a city and The city has no similar…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Carolina Journal Online reports on three former N.C. Supreme Court chief justices defending the court’s tradition against involuntary removal of justices from hearing cases. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains why…