Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Health care deregulation should be permanent
The North Carolina’s response to coronavirus continues as the state remains under a stay-at-home order. No one knows how long the stay-at-home orders will stay in effect or how long…
How Effective Are Stay-at-Home Orders? Continued
Demographer Lyman Stone, who’s been in Hong Kong throughout the COVID-19 crisis, has some thoughts. Here are some highlights from a recent tweet storm:
How Effective Are Stay-at-Home Orders?
European countries and American states were shockingly quick to impose blanket lock-downs in response to COVID-19, despite having no empirical evidence that such extreme measures would be effective, let alone…
COVID-19 impact on small business could be devastating
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon explores the coronavirus pandemic’s crushing blow to an important segment of the American economy. The novel coronavirus and concurrent nationwide lockdown could…
Coronavirus aftermath: The future could be better
Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review Online offers a hopeful take on life after the COVID-19 pandemic. Someday, I hope in the not so distant future, the immediate threat of the…
Coronavirus conspiracies explored
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online highlights unusual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an era of apocalyptic environmentalism, revived Marxism, and goop, mythology and magic are finding dismayingly large…
General Assembly to fund antibody testing
Senator Phil Berger has announced the North Carolina General Assembly would fund a random sample antibody study among North Carolinians. In a post on Medium.com, Berger’s Press Shop wrote: Raleigh,…
JLF leads effort to ensure CARES Act flexibility for states
*This blog entry has been edited. It includes additional signatories to the letter. The John Locke Foundation is leading a national effort to highlight a critical flaw in the $2…
Coronavirus crisis spotlights government officials who are ‘little tyrants’
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist highlights a parrticularly disturbing element of government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s nothing like a crisis to bring clarity. The response of some…
Media miss good COVID-19 developments
David Catron of the American Spectator explores major media outlets’ responses to recent COVID-19 news. The disappointment was palpable in every syllable of the headline: “Everything Is Awful. So Why…
The United States versus COVID-19: Putting liberal complaints in perspective
Editors at the Washington Free Beacon rebut liberal commentators’ complaints about the American response to the coronavirus. Temporarily consigned to their homes, liberal commentators and politicians have fallen back on…
Coronavirus next steps: Levin offers ideas
Yuval Levin writes in The Atlantic about action government agencies can take now to help soften the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. [I]t’s essential, too, for our public officials…