Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Great Barrington Declaration and the ‘science’ of lockdowns
Helen Raleigh of the Federalist ponders the potential impact of the Great Barrington Declaration. Last week, the three leading scientists drafted and posted The Great Barrington Declaration, a public petition…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the role of health care costs in the election for N.C. state treasurer. The Daily Journal highlights one federal judge who has…
Cooper administration is vague on COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths
One of the problems with the Cooper administration's data regarding COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths is when they use those terms, they don't carry the same meaning as when people…
The Fog of Covid-19 Data: Hospitalizations and Deaths
Last week I looked at how North Carolina uses a test cycle threshold that is several cycles past what the scientific consensus calls for, what virologists advise, and what the…
Medicaid Expansion and Rural Hospitals
With the election less than 30 days away, political candidates from all across the spectrum are digging in on their political stances, trying to persuade voters to vote for their…
COVID-19 response plagued by ‘precautionary paradox’
James Meigs writes in Commentary magazine about one factor that has hurt experts’ response to COVID-19. We know now that the coronavirus travels through the air, just as some researchers…
The Right AOC on Point: Midwestern state inspires ‘Supreme Court envy’
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” explains why one state has given her a case of “Supreme Court envy.” Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC…
“The lockdowns must end”
That’s the subtitle of a recent Manhattan Institute peice by John Tierney. Here are the opening paragraphs: Lockdowns are typically portrayed as prudent precautions against Covid-19, but they are surely…
Why Biden’s “Public Option” Would Double Down on High Hospital Prices, Not Solve Them
The reality is, progressively fewer hospitals aren’t a part of a large hospital system, and fewer insurers are offering products across the U.S. Among other things, these developments have resulted…
New Study Points to Funding Gap in Cooper’s Medicaid Expansion Scheme
According to a new study conducted by the John Locke Foundation, Medicaid expansion in North Carolina would leave a funding gap between $119.3 million to $171.3 million in the first…
Supposed science lovers attack science they don’t like
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online probes “unscientific” attacks on Dr. Scott Atlas. The news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts — especially those…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Gov Roy Cooper and other Medicaid expansion proponents claim that expansion would cost no new state tax dollars. A new analysis from the John Locke Foundation rebuts that claim. Jordan…