Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
JLF’s Jordan Roberts Shares Concerns Over Medicaid Expansion at Republican Speakers Forum
On Monday, October 21, JLF’s Jordan Roberts spoke about healthcare at the Republican Speakers Forum. The Rhino Times reported on his appearance. The reporter, John Hammer, reported on the reasons…
Improving Health Care Price Transparency with Self-Insurance
This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published a research brief on the potential for self-insured employers to increase price transparency in health care. According to Roberts: As of 2018, 55.1 percent…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Supporters of the N.C. Department of Transportation are urging state lawmakers to devote more money to highway projects. They contend unusual weather events and settlements related to the Map Act…
When It Comes to Vaping Hysteria, One Picture Says It All
H/T: Gregory Conley
What to make of the new ACA numbers
The roughly 10 million individuals who purchase insurance through the Obamacare exchanges received good new for 2020 premiums yesterday. An article from the WSJ elaborates: Average rates for the most…
Indiana and the Fight to Lower Health Care Costs
We know the lack of price transparency in health care is a significant problem. Health care isn’t purchased like any other product. In most cases, patients outsource consumer power to…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on insurance giant Aetna’s claim that N.C. regulators manipulated a Medicaid contracting process to ensure a win for Blue Cross N.C. Kristen Blair’s…
Stat News highlights Trump administration HRA rule
President Trump signed an executive order in late 2017 to increase the use of short-term, limited-duration insurance, association health plans, and health reimbursement accounts. All three of these options boosted…
US soda taxes do little outside Philadelphia
John Cawley and David Frisvold have become the leading authorities on soda taxes. In their current working paper with David Jones, they compare results in Philadelphia, Oakland, San Francisco, and Seattle.…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that a lawsuit and lack of funding are not blocking North Carolina’s moved toward Medicaid managed care. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why…
Washington Examiner highlights key flaw in Democratic health care proposals
Editors at the Washington Examiner contend that leading Democratic presidential contenders want to spend $7 trillion more on health care with no improvement in care. From the 2020 Democratic candidates’…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
National Democratic leaders want their candidate for the 2020 U.S. Senate race to avoid grass-roots campaigning and instead raise as much money as possible for negative ads against the Republican…