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Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Health Care
COVID-19 death count merits another look
Heather Mac Donald asks in a Spectator USA column: Where are the deaths? What virtually every fear-mongering story on America’s allegedly precarious situation leaves out, however, is the steadily dropping…
Health Care
Nearly Every Health Care Specialty Has Taken A Hit During COVID-19
Jordan Roberts wrote a two-part series this week on the impact COVID-19 has had on the supply and demand of health care. In part one, Roberts discussed how this affected…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Legal action has shined a spotlight on a controversy involving a multimillion-dollar N.C. Medicaid contract. Donald van der Vaart analyzes the controversy on the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on a watered-down patient visitation bill. John Trump’s Daily Journal labels Gov. Roy Cooper’s response to the pandemic inconsistent aand unacceptable.
Health Care
Supply and Demand Hit: How COVID-19 Harmed Health Care
The health care industry has taken a huge hit since the onset of coronavirus across the United States. This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts used data from this spring and spring…
Research Brief
Health Care
Supply and demand shocks in health care due to COVID-19: Part 2 – Non-Hospital Providers
In part one of this research update series on supply and demand shocks in health care, I used a study from FAIR Health regarding hospital revenue and utilization to examine…
Health Care
Hospitals must disclose prices, judge rules
A federal judge ruled the Department of Health and Human Services’ rule to force hospitals to disclose their negotiated prices with insurers was legal. The rule, introduced last November, was…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
UNC economist Zelder sees ‘remarkably encouraging’ coronavirus news
UNC-Chapel Hill economist Martin Zelder submits the following column: NORTH CAROLINA’S REMARKABLY ENCOURAGING CORONAVIRUS SITUATION Coronavirus numbers are everywhere you look, and the source of anxiety. Some numbers — like…
Research Brief
Health Care
Supply and demand shocks in health care due to COVID-19: Part 1 – Hospitals
The COVID-19 impact on consumer demand happened rather abruptly in March. Demand for many goods and services plummeted due to voluntary social distancing and mandatory stay-at-home orders. COVID-19 stressed the…
Health Care
Placing COVID-19 case numbers in context
Editors at Issues and Insights counter the hysteria about rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. [T]he Centers for Disease Control has long predicted that coronavirus cases would increase as the country…
Health Care
How can hospitals better prepare for a potential second wave of Coronavirus?
When the Coronavirus began to spread in the U.S., no one knew what to expect. Public health officials weren’t sure what infections, hospitalizations, or deaths would look like in our…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal that online information about COVID-19 testing often differs from N.C. government guidelines. The Daily Journal credits one N.C. judge who recognizes the importance of…