A provision in last year’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” mandates that beginning in 2028, the maximum provider tax rate states are allowed to charge will be reduced from 6…
Democrat Governor Roy Cooper has no plans to lift his over 600-day long State of Emergency, despite the consistent decline in Covid cases. Who wins? Health care entities, which gain…
Paul Hoffman writes at the American Thinker about one disturbing byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic. People have a tendency to venerate doctors, and when they heroically save your life, this…
Vik Khanna argues in a Federalist column that we are all suffering now from hospitals‘ lack of preparation for a pandemic. When the eventual COVID-19 post-mortem is conducted, the big…
Jordan Roberts wrote a two-part series this week on the impact COVID-19 has had on the supply and demand of health care. In part one, Roberts discussed how this affected…
The health care industry has taken a huge hit since the onset of coronavirus across the United States. This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts used data from this spring and spring…
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the impact of the pandemic and economic shutdown for hospitals and health care workers. John Hood’s Daily Journal argues that a second…
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the federal CARES Act’s potential impact for N.C. hospitals and medical practices. John Hood’s Daily Journal assesses potential long-term impacts of COVID-19…
Yesterday on the blog, I wrote about a doctor in North Carolina who treated an astronaut at the International Space Station via telemedicine. This example shows just the potential of…
We talk about telemedicine as a way that patients and doctors can access each other at a distance for treatment. But, what about connecting medical facilities with drones? That’s the…
John Locke Foundation’s Jordan Roberts says that we haven’t come close to realizing how beneficial telemedicine can be. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released a spending report…
If you haven’t heard, Carolina Beach recently overturned its law prohibiting out-of-town food trucks from serving the community after the Institute for Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of food…