Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Andrew Dunn reports for Carolina Journal Online on state Treasurer Dale Folwell’s concerns about hospital price transparency. Joshua Peters’ CJ Opinion urges action from lawmakers on addressing Title IX concerns.
COVID-19 origin story needs investigation
Editors at National Review Online call for a more thorough probe into the cause of our yearlong pandemic problems. The World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of COVID is…
The NC Threat-Free Index for the week ending March 29, plus a discussion of herd immunity
All things considered, about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone — a virus most had never had and the rest had recovered…
AP report: “ongoing child abuse crisis” amid lockdowns
The report "found that child abuse reports, investigations, substantiated allegations and interventions have dropped at a staggering rate, increasing risks for the most vulnerable of families in the U.S." Most…
Insurance mandates are bad health care policy
Hundreds of bills have been introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly since the session started over two months ago. The bills deal with a wide variety of issues such…
Why we’re very close to herd immunity
Natural immunity after Covid-19 infection is likely lifelong, extrapolating from data on other coronaviruses that cause severe illness, SARS and MERS,” says Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease physician and professor at…
New bills would eliminate CON laws in NC
Legislation introduced this week would decrease healthcare costs and increase access to medical care for North Carolinians, by eliminating our backwards and restrictive Certificate of Need (CON) laws. House Bill…
Lockdowns and psychological distress
About one in three young adults (32%) under 30 reported experiencing high levels of “psychological distress.” Another third (31%) reported medium levels. Nearly half (45%) reported being “nervous, anxious or on…
COVID-19’s negative impact on science
Professors Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, original signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, use a Federalist column to discuss their concerns about COVID-19’s long-term impact on science. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Editorial cartoon exposes simple-minded support for Medicaid expansion
WRAL editorial cartoonist Dennis Draughon published the above cartoon this week in an attempt to show how ignorant opponents of Medicaid expansion must be. The cartoon features Gov. Cooper showing…
Deaths of despair: AIER research shows huge spike in deaths by teens and young adults in 2020
More evidence continues to show that government lockdowns and severe restrictions are wreaking havoc on youths’ mental health, with deadly consequences. I found instructive a comment from a doctor in…
UK research team: “lockdowns serve no useful purpose and cause catastrophic societal and economic harms”
"The data is in: lockdowns serve no useful purpose and cause catastrophic societal and economic harms. They must never be repeated in this country."