Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Government Continually Shifts COVID Goals
Grace Curley writes for the American Spectator about the federal government’s changing COVID-19 goalposts. Biden rails against the governors of Texas and Florida, while somehow neglecting Louisiana, a nearby southern…
Is There Something In the Medicare Report They Don’t Want Us To See?
A family member asked me a fascinating question recently: How many Americans are covered by Medicare? She is, and she’s curious about all the news reports that Democrats want to…
Vaccine, Mask Mandates as a ‘Purge’ of GOP Voters
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist sees a partisan political angle in the latest bouts of mask and vaccine mandates. Myriad Republican lawmakers are standing idly by, letting their voters be…
What’s a Tullock Spike, and what can it teach us about forced mask-wearing?
Find out how the economic insight of offsetting behavior offers some explanation for why forced mask-wearing didn't work.
Finally, a public health official who’s willing to tell the truth!
“’Nobody really knows what’s going on,’ says epidemiologist John Edmunds at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).” He is quoted in a recent article in Nature: “Surprise…
CDC hints at scope of Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths “not related to Covid-19”
So roughly one-fourth of "breakthrough" Covid-19 hospitalizations (26%) and deaths (24%) were "asymptomatic or not related to Covid-19." How many of North Carolina's Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths were "not related to…
National Review Believes CDC Mask Guidance Will Backfire
Editors at National Review Online respond to the latest COVID-19 mask guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. Begin with one simple fact: The Delta variant of COVID-19 is more…
The Great ‘Decoupling’: North Carolina Hasn’t Seen Excess Deaths from Covid since Mid-March
The graph atop this post plots weekly Covid deaths against the excess death threshold. Covid’s peak in early winter is evident. But as you can see, North Carolina has not…
North Carolina: No Excess Deaths From Covid Since Mid-March
Data from the CDC and state DHHS show that North Carolina has not been suffering excess deaths from Covid-19 since mid-March 2021. While Covid-19 is still out there, its effect…
Tillis: Biden administration “apparently doesn’t trust the science”
Sen. Thom Tillis isn’t mincing words about the CDC’s new guidance, which recommends that vaccinated Americans wear a mask indoors. Here’s Tillis’ statement from Tuesday (emphasis is mine): WASHINGTON, D.C. –…
IN BOX: House Speaker Moore Pans Vax Mandate On State Health Care Facility Workers
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore is reacting to the vaccination mandate announced by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Read the entire state letter here. The…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Donna King reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state House bill to join an interstate licensing agreement for mental health counselors. Mitch Kokai’s CJ Opinion rebuts false claims about…