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Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Research Brief
Health Care
New audit finds a disturbing lack of oversight in Medicaid program
The lack of oversight created “an increased risk that providers whose actions posed a threat to patient safety” continued to practice, and the audit also identified nearly $120 million in…
Research Brief
Health Care
NC’s stranglehold on access to medical care should end
North Carolina's archaic certificate-of-need laws leave the state with significant deficits in psychiatric hospitals and substance abuse facilities — and higher prices. North Carolina should join the 15 other states…
Health Care
Considering one year with COVID-19
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online ponders the impact of the past year of pandemic. What have you seen in the year since COVID-19 entered our lives? The question…
Health Care
Biden’s vaccine plan falters in face of reality
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online highlights problems linked to the new president’s plan for COVID-19 vaccines. You can almost hear the sigh of frustration from the Oval Office: “But…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on N.C. residents’ dissatisfaction with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains how the political left is damaging N.C. public…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the increasing pace of North Carolina’s COVID-19 vaccinations. The latest CJ Opinion highlights one conservative pundit’s plea to create a new governing…
Health Care
Government planners’ vaccine problem
The HotAir.com contributor known as Allahpundit highlights a problem plaguing state-level government nannies. We already know what it is, but it’s encouraging to see America’s most influential newspaper pinpoint it.…
Health Care
COVID-19 vaccination timetable will last well into spring
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online offers bad news to those who expect the swift COVID-19 vaccination of America’s most vulnerable people. Perhaps the country would be better off if…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the negative impact of state certificate-of-need restrictions. The latest CJ Opinion explains that a regulatory rollback linked to COVID-19 should apply to…
Health Care
Vaccine ingenuity on display
From the Associated Press comes the story of ingenuity and quick thinking in Oregon. Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19…
Health Care
Biden’s COVID-19 plan offers ‘progressive headfake’
That’s how Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon describes the new president’s pandemic plan. Buried on page 95 of Joe Biden’s COVID plan is an odd reference. The plan…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio’s last episode
After almost 18 years on N.C. airwaves, Carolina Journal Radio airs its final program this weekend. Andy Jackson explains how state lawmakers can take steps to prevent state agencies from…