Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last Thing We Need Is Biden’s Medicaid Expansion Scheme
North Carolina lawmakers have wisely resisted pressure from the Left to add more than half a million people to the government’s Medicaid program. Locke’s Jordan Roberts has extensively chronicled the…
Potential federal legislation makes Medicaid expansion an even worse deal for North Carolina
Recently, while responding to reporters’ questions on the budget, Gov. Roy Cooper reiterated his desire to expand Medicaid. For years, the Republican-led General Assembly has resisted expanding the Medicaid program to include…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Carolina Journal Online reports on the General Assembly finalizing the No Patient Left Alone Act. CJ also reports on the N.C. Revenue Department’s recent courtroom loss in a dispute involving…
NC Medicaid Expansion: A Political Loser Then and Now
Really interesting piece from Carolina Journal’s Investigative Political Analyst Dallas Woodhouse, who looks at why Medicaid expansion was, and is, a political loser. Here’s a taste, as Woodhouse looks at…
Democrats’ Spending Plan Promotes Leftists’ Health Care Scheme
Sally Pipes writes at National Review Online about one disturbing aspect of congressional Democrats’ spending plan. Senator Bernie Sanders (I.,Vt.), America’s most prominent proponent of government-run health care, is once…