WRAL earlier this week published an editorial titled “Take the money, it’s ours. Expand Medicaid.” The article misses the mark in many ways, starting with the article title itself. The…
Last week I looked at how North Carolina uses a test cycle threshold that is several cycles past what the scientific consensus calls for, what virologists advise, and what the…
When the Coronavirus began to spread in the U.S., no one knew what to expect. Public health officials weren’t sure what infections, hospitalizations, or deaths would look like in our…
Greensboro News & Record obtains an angry (to say the least) email by a Cone Health executive blasting lawmakers– and state Treasurer Dale Folwell—over changes to the State Health Plan:…
Peter Suderman writes for Reason about the impact for rural health care of the proposed “Medicare for All.” The core problem, in [Elizabeth] Warren’s view, is politicians who won’t fight…
North Carolina’s Certificate Of Need Law: Diagnosing Dysfunction
Henderson County commissioners approved a series of legal documents Wednesday to better position Pardee Hospital to adjust to a rapidly changing health care climate. “I think it’s fair to say…
Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as “Obamacare.” My beef…
In our latest episode of our daily drama, Hospital Wars . . . Mike Poore recently resigned as CEO of MedWest. Few details were provided in the media. Since then,…
St. Luke’s Hospital wishes to expand. It asked the county if it could sell it 14.13 acres and a hospital building in order to qualify for a loan. The county…
The Haywood Regional Medical Center has lost its Medicare certification. Details are not available, but evidently an inordinate number of patients had been getting the wrong meds. In addition, reports…
While legislators are happy to give away $60 million to tire plants that have already been renovated, hospitals have a hard time just getting approval to upgrade their facilities. As…