Budget, Taxation & Economy
Costs of Medicaid Expansion
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…
North Carolina Health News
Health Care
Dental Therapy Spotlight
Earlier this week, North Carolina Health News reported on Christy Jo Fogarty’s speech at the John Locke Foundation’s 2019 Dental Therapy Luncheon. Christy Jo Fogarty is the country’s first advanced…
Health Care
The truth about Medicaid expansion money
The question of cost has been central in the Medicaid expansion debate here in North Carolina. On this topic, a few claims need to be cleared up. First, there is…
Liberty
Something is not right here
The new NCGA session will be a busy one for the North Carolina Healthcare Association, the industry group that represents hospitals. On one front they are fighting the Treasurer’s proposal…
Health Care
Free telehealth visits offered to Florence victims
Hurricane Florence caused massive amounts of damage when it bombarded the North Carolina and South Carolina coast. There were record rainfall and flooding which caused massive damage and severely limited…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Food program in search of takers
From the headline to the details, everything about a recent North Carolina Health News story illustrates what is wrong with the way too many government programs try to help. The…
Liberty
Raleigh’s racial and youth disparities in gun violence
Raleigh police released a report on gun violence that shows that victims and suspects of gun violence in Raleigh are mostly young and predominantly black.
Liberty
Medicaid expansion critiqued, teacher compensation explored, and more
North Carolina policymakers face continuing pressure to expand the state’s Medicaid program. A public panel discussion on Medicaid expansion at Wake Forest University featured one voice opposing the idea: John…
Health Care
Medicaid Expansion In The Works?
This past Monday evening, I was a panelist at Wake Forest University’s Health Law and Policy Program’s town-hall forum on whether North Carolina should expand Medicaid. Despite the enthusiastic, overly…
Health Care
North Carolina Medicaid: Getting the Facts Straight
In a two-part series, North Carolina Health News dissects the administrative costs of its Medicaid program and questions whether the state entitlement program really is broken: “There is no crisis…
Liberty
Post-election punditry generates JLF media opportunities
Now that North Carolina voters have paired a Republican governor with a Republican-led General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, the Fayetteville Observer sought John Locke…