Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina recently announced plans to help health care consumers learn more about the costs of the health services they use. The idea makes sense to Joseph Coletti, who explained his reasons during a debate on WPTF Radio’s afternoon show. JLF’s recent policy report on long-term care financing continued to attract notice; report author Stephen Moses of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform discussed his ideas with Lockwood Phillips on WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio.” JLF Vice President for Research Roy Cordato has made the case against Certificate of Need (CON) laws that restrict hospitals in North Carolina. Now his arguments against CON laws have attracted attention in another Southern state, as discussed this week in the Birmingham News.
