Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Candidate Question: What is the status of Association Healthcare Plans?
What is the status of association health plans in North Carolina? JLF’s Health Care Policy expert, Jordan Roberts has the answer: During the 2019 legislative session, the North Carolina General…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the impact of the pandemic and economic shutdown for hospitals and health care workers. John Hood’s Daily Journal argues that a second…
Teachers unhappy with NC DHHS guidance
For information on DHHS guidance, read this.
Direct-to-Consumer Health Care
Medical expenses in America are on the rise, and the medical insurance industry plays a huge role in this trend. As JLF’s Jordan Roberts writes in a research brief this…
Testing hydroxychloroquine’s preventative effects for health care workers
In early April, JLF published a research brief on the potential use of hydroxychloroquine to protect doctors, nurses, and first responders on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
Freedom is the foundation for ensuring black lives matter
A message from our CEO Amy Cooke: Thomas Jefferson said, “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” All of us at the John Locke…
The importance of primary care
Elected officials who work on health care reform tend to focus on coverage, that is, whether an individual has the necessary health insurance coverage to pay for the services one…
Forbes touts better health care at lower costs
Steve Forbes writes in the latest Forbes magazine about meeting two important health care goals. Can you imagine the United States having a health care system that delivers better outcomes…
“The C.D.C. waited its entire existence for this moment. What went wrong?”
The New York Times attempts to answer that question in a recent peice describing the results of its “review of thousands of emails and interviews with more than 100 state…
JLF’s Jordan Roberts Discusses Telemedicine on NC State’s “First in Future”
On June 2, NC State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues published an episode of their podcast, “First in Future,” with JLF’s Jordan Roberts as a guest. Roberts and podcast host…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on rising political tensions linked to the Republican National Convention’s likely move out of Charlotte. Joseph Coletti’s Daily Journal considers the impact of…
It takes a big man–or woman–to admit to being wrong
Norway appears to be blessed with a lot of such people. From a recent report in the Spectator: [T]he Norwegian public health authority has published a report with a striking…