Remember Cooper's supposed "metrics" for reopening? According to the very standards the governor set, North Carolina should be open and back to business.
You've probably never even heard that hospitalizations have been trending downward the past few weeks.
COVID-19 revealed severe issues in the U.S. health care system, including the distribution of health care professionals and the restrictions we put on those professionals. The report calls for a…
The 30-day order to shut down and lock down the state was about ensuring hospital resources could be available for critically ill patients. If that was done, then the state's…
At 1,034 hospitalizations, we're about one-twelfth of the best-case scenario hospitalizations projected now. Taken in context, this scary number is good news, not bad.
In March, an increase in hospitalizations in mid-June was a feature of stay-at-home orders, not a flaw. What’s changed?
Since late April, Gov. Cooper and Sec. Cohen have repeatedly stated that North Carolina has indeed flattened the curve.
Things have gotten complicated for the medical insurance providers who signed up to cover North Carolina’s Medicaid population under the new managed care system. North Carolina was scheduled to transition…
A tip of the hat to defender of health care freedom, Dr. Richard Bruch, who has been named The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2020 Congressional Ambassador. Dr. Bruch was…
Health Care Solutions Week: North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law leads to artificially high health care costs as it limits competition for the provision of health care services. Yet Republicans who tout…
Listeners of this weekend’s edition of “People In Politics” on Curtis Media Group radio stations will hear Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson discuss this week’s campaign finance-related guilty pleas…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online about the N.C. Medical Society’s proposals for Medicaid reform. John Hood’s Daily Journal notes the importance of apples-to-apples comparisons when making public policy…