Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
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…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Jeff Moore reports for Carolina Journal Online on the latest example of North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions causing problems for health care consumers. John Hood’s CJ Opinion highlights a massive funding…
State Health Plan Debate Reaches NC Supreme Court
More than 200,000 retired state government workers and their dependents could face changes to their state health plans. The North Carolina Supreme Court heard a case Monday regarding whether the…
Are Too Many White People Studying Racial Disparities in Health Care?
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon documents another sign of today’s overly racialized political climate. Is studying racial disparities in health care just another example of white supremacy run…
The Affordable Care Act as Poorly Drafted Law
Tom Miller writes in National Affairs about one seldom-discussed flaw in the Affordable Care Act. It is natural to think of the enactment of a piece of legislation into law…
Government Drives Up Consumer Costs
Government is a necessary institution, and I would argue that, when it is fulfilling its constitutionally designated role, it has the capacity for much good. I realize some of my…
Nearly half for other reasons? How misleading are Covid hospitalization numbers?
New research finds that barely over half (52%) of Covid patients in the VA during the post-vaccination period were hospitalized for the management of Covid-19 disease. The rest (48%) were…
‘Free’ Health Care Carries High Price
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online ponders “free” health care. Middle- to upper-middle-income Britons do pay higher national income taxes than do their American counterparts, but when state and local…
Vaccination Battles Threaten the Hippocratic Oath
Patrick Hauf writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a COVID-related dispute within the medical community. A growing number of doctors have threatened to withhold treatment from the unvaccinated, sparking…
National Recognition in Forbes for N.C. CON Reforms
Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform highlights in a Forbes column North Carolina’s successful effort to loosen certificate-of-need restrictions. As Texas demonstrated this past summer, the national media loves…
Mask Mandates and ‘Living By Lies’
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist explains her top objection to COVID-19 mask mandates. Throughout the last year, I’ve read a lot of masking arguments but none that broached my top…
“We have to judge medical evidence the same: whether ivermectin OR cloth masks in young kids.”
Vinay Prasad makes that sensible suggestion in a recent Twitter thread and adds, “Both have weak evidence.” He continues: