Health Care
Dear me, the N&O editors have lost all faith in Obamacare
Four years ago, the editors of the N&O said Obamacare "will work and people will like it and wonder why it took so long to put something as sensible as…
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Health Care
Trump Executive Order Could Bring Back Affordable Health Insurance
The Trump Administration is using the Executive Order process to its advantage in hopes that federal agencies will begin deregulating the health insurance market. If all goes according to plan,…
Health Care
More Regulation In Health Care Isn’t Needed For Telemedicine To Thrive
While a majority of state legislatures have passed laws that force private health insurance companies to cover health care services delivered through telemedicine, North Carolina is not one of those…
Health Care
North Carolina Approved For 24 Percent Average Health Insurance Premium Hikes
Last week, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina received final approval to increase the underlying cost of 2017 health insurance premiums by an average of 24 percent. The…
Health Care
The N&O strikes a slightly different tone on Obamacare than they did three years ago
(It’s just a slightly different tone. It’s still the greatest thing, you know.) Three years ago this month, the editors of The News & Observer were confidently predicting a day when we…
Health Care
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Will Continue Offering Obamacare Plans Statewide In 2017
See the health insurer’s press release announcement here. With BCBS NC and Cigna as the only health insurance exchange participants for 2017, this is what the state’s non-group insurance market will…
Research Brief
Health Care
What To Do About North Carolina’s Obamacare Exchange Crisis Mode?
North Carolina’s Obamacare exchange market is in crisis mode. UnitedHealth Group and Aetna have backed out. That leaves 80 percent of North Carolinians who don’t have job-based health insurance with…
Health Care
Carolinas HealthCare System gets sued again
For alleged antitrust violations. Per the Charlotte Observer: Three months after the state and federal and government sued Carolinas HealthCare System over alleged antitrust violations, a San Francisco law firm…
Health Care
Repealing State Health Insurance Benefit Mandates Can Help Slow The Growth Of Obamacare Premiums
North Carolina’s Obamacare exchange insurance market is in crisis mode. The state’s 100 counties will have 1.05 insurance carriers offering government approved plans to people who purchase health insurance on their…
Research Brief
Health Care
Almost All Of North Carolina Will Have One Obamacare Insurance Option In 2017
In 2017, a majority of North Carolinians who purchase health insurance on their own will have no choice but to pay their premiums to either Blue Cross and Blue Shield,…
Health Care
Almost All Of North Carolina Will Have One Obamacare Insurance Option In 2017
In 2017, a majority of North Carolinians who purchase health insurance on their own will have no choice but to pay their premiums to either Blue Cross and Blue Shield,…
Liberty
90 NC counties may have only one Obamacare insurer
This is not necessarily breaking news—-insurers are pulling out of North Carolina’s 2017 Obamacare health insurance exchange, possibly leaving 90 counties—-that’s 90 percent—with only one exchange insurer: Most North Carolinians…