Did you know this week is National Nurses Week? Here is some background from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists: In 1993, the American Nurses Association declared May 6-12 as…
This morning’s Joint Legislative Oversight Committee Meeting on Health and Human Services touched on a variety of topics, some of which included regulations that stifle access to health care – especially…
It isn’t necessarily a problem that the US spends more on health care than other nations. But it is a big problem on how much of that spending amounts to…
They don’t. The Department of Justice (DOJ) notes that CON laws were passed in large part because hospitals were reimbursed on a cost-plus basis, (i.e., the actual cost of care…
As 2014 draws to a close, the latest edition of Carolina Journal Radio highlights some of the most interesting interviews from the past year. John Hood explains how empirical analysis…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Duke University research scholar Chris Conover about the overstated risks for people without health insurance. Sarah Curry’s Daily Journal…
Pundits and prognosticators have spent a lot of time discussing Mark Walker’s dominating win over Phil Berger Jr. in North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District Republican primary runoff election. Rick Henderson…
I had the privilege to co-author a Forbes blog post with Chris Conover, Forbes Contributor and Research Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University. You…
The federal Affordable Care Act address American health care challenges largely by aiming to boost the number of people with health insurance. But that approach ignores a key question: How…
Join us Monday at 12 Noon at JLF in downtown Raleigh for a discussion of health care policy with a renowned Duke scholar, Chris Conover. Shaftesbury attendees are in for…
Obamacare is riddled with them, writes Duke University’s Chris Conover here.