Recent changes enacted under the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) place North Carolina's Medicaid financing model directly at risk. If North Carolina’s Medicaid program is to remain viable over the…
By design, expansion ignores assets, allowing even the wealthiest individuals to qualify so long as their reported income is low enough. Meanwhile, the vulnerable groups that Medicaid was designed to…
When Medicaid was established in 1965, it was not a sweeping guarantee of health care for all; it was a narrow commitment aimed at serving society’s most vulnerable: the disabled,…
Extreme cost and enrollment overruns have been the norm for expansion states.
Nearly three months into the fiscal year, a budget bill has finally arrived. While containing several flaws, the good seems to outweigh the bad. Some parts of the budget and…
Medicaid expansion is a government intervention created to address problems caused by previous interventions. Government artificially inflating demand while restricting supply has resulted in unaffordable prices and a lack of…
Charles Blahous and Liam Sigaud of the Mercatus Center document a negative consequence of Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is generally associated in expansion states…
Republican budget writers released their conference budget adjustments for the new fiscal year on Tuesday, circumventing the traditional appropriations process. The budget proposal would increase bottom-line spending, add to the…
The General Assembly is expected to release their conference budget on Monday. The budget should do the following: 1. Respect North Carolinians’ tax dollars through fiscal responsibility. Earlier this year, state leaders…
A far-left coalition of groups in North Carolina calling itself “NC United for Survival & Beyond” (NCUSB) is back again, but this time with what could be described as a…
House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger today released a joint statement announcing that the two chambers have come to an agreement on the total amount…
Making her weekly appearance on WUNC’s “The Politics Podcast” hosted by Jeff Tiberii, Locke’s Becki Gray offers sound perspective on Gov. Roy Cooper’s behemoth budget proposal, a spending plan that…