NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Senator Donald G. Davis 5th District Office: 300 N.SalisburyStreet 523 Legislative Office Building Raleigh, North Carolina 27603-5925 Phone: (919)715-8363 Fax: (919)754-3159 Email: [email protected] Counties: Pitt andGreene…
Wednesday morning, the N.C. House held a surprise vote and overrode the governor’s veto on the budget. That move, if the Senate follows suit, would provide the funding needed to…
Hubert Humphrey once said, “The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our…
The Governor and the Republican leadership in the General Assembly both have their feet dug in on the budget battle. The fiscal year ended at the end of June and…
The House Health Committee is scheduled to consider HB 655, Health Care for Working Families, tomorrow morning. First, kudos to the leadership for bringing this issue forward and to members for…
When a politician starts talking about free things, you know to check your wallet. Medicaid expansion, in all its varieties, is no different. It would add $4.2 billion to state…
JLF’s Joe Coletti recently commented on Medicaid Expansion for Governing magazine. Coletti comments that one reason many legislators hesitate to expand Medicaid in North Carolina is due to the upcoming…
JLF’s Jordan Roberts was recently quoted in a Leader’s Edge article on innovative models in health care. The article detailed the experimental health care models being tested in five states:…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal: The state’s tax-supported managed care agencies for mental health are a mess. That’s the gist of an audit released Monday, May 6, by State…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on an audit that suggests poor management of Medicaid managed care groups in North Carolina. The Daily Journal highlights two bills that focus…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on lawmakers’ concerns about managed-care companies selected to run North Carolina’s Medicaid program. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains how forums are addressing the…
From John Locke Foundation’s Jordan Roberts: It was reported earlier this week that a state audit of the California Medicaid program called “Medi-Cal” revealed that the state had made at…