Health Care
Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Education
“HeadLocke” Covers COVID-19: Research and K-12 Schools
The John Locke Foundation continues its coverage of the way the Coronavirus outbreak is affecting North Carolina this week in the latest episode of the “HeadLocke” podcast. In this week’s…
Health Care
Adding a bioethicist to the coronavirus debate
Jonathan Tobin notes at National Review Online one major omission from the federal government’s discussion of COVID-19’s impact. … [T]here is someone crucially absent in the public effort to deal…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Don’t call the federal aid package stimulus
Editors at National Review Online don’t want to see Congress’ coronavirus aid package mislabeled. What is before Congress is not a stimulus bill. We have often opposed stimulus bills in…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has disrupted everyone’s life. Rick Henderson analyzes the likely impact on 2020 elections for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Terry Stoops assesses the long-term…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online how cutting red tape can help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal explains why the pandemic doesn’t give Gov. Roy Cooper…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
“If we keep up our current strategy of suppression based on indiscriminate social distance for 12 to 18 months, most of us will still be alive. It is our economy that will be dead.”
That’s the conclusion of a recent NYT opinion piece by economist Paul Romer. In “Will Our Economy Die From Coronavirus?,” Romer recommends an alternative to our current strategy: To protect…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The health care bottleneck
Nathanael Blake argues in a Federalist column that the economy was never going to survive the COVID-19 pandemic unscathed. Keeping the economy humming along like normal was never an option.…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The pandemic’s impact on economic relations with China
Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner reports on one potential economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. American companies that produce essential goods in China should plan to shift their operations…
Health Care
Local government power during times of emergency
Kevin Daley of the Washington Free Beacon explores the extent of local governments’ emergency powers. North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a premier vacation destination on the east coast, closed its borders…
Health Care
Coronavirus and the future of American politics
Jonah Goldberg asks in a National Review Online column how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect American politics. Stage 2 is the “COVID-19 confirms my priors” period. For many Democrats, the…
Health Care
Early Release Is Not Prison System’s Answer To Coronavirus
A group of criminal justice reform researchers and advocates have sent letters to the governor and the commissioner of prisons requesting that the state take steps to minimize the likelihood of a Coronavirus…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on North Carolina’s 11th District congressional runoff election. Amy Cooke’s Daily Journal explains why the pandemic represents an…