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After a decade of resistance, North Carolina expanded its Medicaid program this year. It marks the largest entitlement increase in state history. Since government intervention is the major culprit in…
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…
This is the second part of a four-part “healthcare freedom” series I am blogging this week. As I said in Part 1, this week I am going to discuss four…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon details a new campaign to nudge people away from consuming soft drinks. The National Institutes of Health is spending over $150,000 to study…
Abstract North Carolina is one of 18 states that do not have a telemedicine parity law, which forces insurance companies to pay health care providers for services treated via telemedicine…
John Stossel‘s latest column tackles the argument that the profit motive somehow taints health-related scientific research. I’m the underachiever in my family. My parents also produced Harvard Medical School research…
Becky Quick devotes her latest Fortune magazine column to sharing the results of a conversation with Mark Bertolini, “chairman, CEO, and president of insurance giant Aetna.” He has a simple…
North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation for infant mortality and 37th for maternal death. North Carolina is also one of five states that requires obstetrician supervision over practicing Certified Nurse-Midwives.…
View in your browser. The energy bill garnering the most attention right now is H.B. 298, the "Affordable and Reliable Energy Act." A new letter to the General Assembly by…
The appropriations subcommittee for DHHS gets its first look at the House budget this morning. At a first glance, the only expansion is $115 Million the first year and $215…
A liberal North Carolina health care policy analyst says: There really isn’t much of a dispute here – we need to improve our health system. That first means real reform…
The following is my comment responding to claims made on a local left-wing blog regarding my recent wind report. As often is the case, especially when it comes to environmental…