John Locke Updates: Health Care

The North Carolina Senate has just released its $22.9 billion budget plan for fiscal years 2017-2019. The Senate proposed spending $5.2 billion of that total on all Health and Human Services…

Published on May 4, 2017 Katherine Restrepo, John Locke Foundation director of health care policy, discusses the U.S. House’s vote on a bill to repeal elements of…

If conservatives in Congress have a Plan B for health reform, it’s essential that they decentralize power to the states. Let states enact policies that the majority of their constituents…

March 23, 2017 marked the seventh birthday of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It might not make it to eight. That all depends, of course, on whether the House GOP…

Note: As this article is being written the outcome of the vote on the American Health Care Act is uncertain. Whether the bill passes the House today or not the…

This week, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Republican Obamacare repeal bill, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The 28-page document reports…

What if the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) put out a study stating that if we had a draft more people would join the military, or if we made taxation voluntary…

Despite the North Carolina legislature and other federal obstacles standing in the way, Governor Roy Cooper desperately wants to expand Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health services…

Health care is huge (yuge) this year. Huge. And it will continue to be a contentious topic of discussion for years to come, as Americans are not only waiting…

It has long been established that the incoming Trump Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress have plans for a partial repeal and replace of Obamacare. What does this entail? There…