Health Care
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Available data make it easier to tell the story of the patients most likely to struggle with COVID-19. Jordan Roberts analyzes a recent COVID-19 profile for the next edition of…
Cooper administration offers unconvincing case for requiring masks
Dr. Mandy Cohen, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) secretary, gave a presentation before the NC House Health Committee on June 17. This was the week before…
Sen. Paul introduces universal HSA bill
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) recently introduced a bill that would dramatically liberalize the rules and regulations regarding health savings accounts (HSA). HSA’s are accounts that individuals and employers can…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online about COVID-19’s impact on the uninsured. John Hood’s Daily Journal focuses on issues likely to drive county commissioner elections across North Carolina.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Joseph Coletti’s Daily Journal questions Cooper’s reliance on “science and data” when making COVID-19 decisions.
HHS IG says providers can work directly with RIP Medical Debt
The non-profit RIP Medical Debt was given the green light to work directly with providers to eliminate medical debt for low-income patients. Alex Kacik for Modern Healthcare reported, HHS’ Office…
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: Hospital reporting, testing anomalies, and demographic variations
My colleagues Don van der Vaart and Jon Sanders have argued in a series of reports on the “fog of COVID-19 data” that coronavirus statistics are being miscalculated, misconstrued, and…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on one RTP company’s role in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains how new monuments could help unify…
Characteristics of COVID-19 patients
One of the most challenging aspects of the response to COVID-19 is the lack of information known about the virus before it started to spread throughout the world. How is…
Doctor: Effects of full-time remote learning “may be worse than the effects of covid-19”
The following is an email from Dr. William Vine to a member of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners. I have reproduced the email with the author’s permission. Well, the…
I don’t know if Harvey Risch is right about hydroxychloroquine…
But I think he’s definitely right about the politicization of medicine. Harvey Risch, who’s a Professor of Epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, published an opinion piece yesterday called,…
Trump’s second term healthcare agenda
The health care vision of the two political parties in America could not be more different. Democrats and those on the left want to see government play a much larger…