Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that government rules block U.S.-trained foreign doctors who could help fill family practice needs. The Daily Journal focuses on policy differences that are…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on government rules that block foreign-born doctors from helping to address North Carolina’s physician gaps. The Daily Journal explains one potential rule change…
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily highlight the predictable shortage of doctors encouraged by the Affordable Care Act. A year before ObamaCare became law, an IBD/TIPP Poll warned that it would…
That’s what Dr. Erin Fraher, health workforce expert at University of North Carolina, had to say to lawmakers at a recent subcommittee meeting that examined how government funds are distributed…
I recently blogged about the growing consensus among North Carolina lawmakers and health care experts for there to be more transparency in how state taxpayer dollars are spent on physician…
North Carolina doesn’t have a doctor shortage. Doctors just aren’t choosing to practice medicine in sparsely populated towns. “The real problem is maldistribution,” says Dr. Erin Fraher, Director of the…
It makes sense to increase the supply of health care given the fact that Obamacare focuses so much on increasing demand for health services (in large part because of Medicaid…
Since it was passed back in 2010 we have been told that the Affordable Care Act would lead to fewer emergency room visits because more people would be covered by…
Saturday, Mission Health asked people to avoid the emergency room if at all possible; as the hospital was maxed out. The hospital’s analytics algorithms could isolate no overriding factor. But…
Obamacare uses tax money to subsidize the demand for health care services, both through health insurance subsidies and expansion of Medicaid. The problem is that there is a vast array…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes a National Review Online column to explaining why increased health insurance enrollment will not necessarily translate into increased access to health care. Obamacare,…
Obamacare was supposed to be all about access, making it easier for patients to see doctors and get the care they needed. So today’s piece in The Wall Street Journal…