Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
CJ Reports: Dependent Doctors Exaggerate Health Care Costs
This week, reporter Julie Havlak wrote an article for Carolina Journal on the dwindling number of independent physicians, the causes of this decrease, and what it means for health care.…
JLF’ Mitch Kokai Quoted in Winston-Salem Journal Story on Medicaid Expansion
This week, JLF’s Mitch Kokai was quoted in a Winston-Salem Journal story on Medicaid expansion. The reporter, Richard Craver, writes: A federal oversight agency cautioned last week that the Centers…
A scary Sesame Street
Kyle Smith of National Review Online questions a recent addition to a beloved children’s television program. Sesame Street is rightly beloved, but I’m not sure moving into the area of…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online about N.C. doctors pushing for independence from larger health care systems. John Hood’s Daily Journal challenges tax myths and reminds readers that the…
Regulation and choice
Sometimes public policy is designed for the benefit of a few at the expense of all others. A recent California bill is a perfect example of just that: Shares of…
Price transparency and health care
Tom Coburn writes for Fox Business about the role of price transparency in improving American health care. Democratic presidential primary candidates are spending a lot of time talking about health…
A Better Economy Could Be Causing Fewer Insured
This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published a research brief on the recently released Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage in 2018. Roberts writes: The total number of individuals without…
The impact of medical licensure laws
Medical licensing is in place to help prevent patients from being treated by someone with no training or by someone who has had ethical violations in the past. However, in…
Did President Trump Sabotage Obamacare?
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its report on health insurance coverage for 2018. The total number of individuals without health insurance increased from 2017 to 2018. Many media pundits…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
A judge will hear arguments this month in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law. Jon Guze analyzes the case, including his own brief supporting the plaintiff, for the next…
What Trump’s Latest Executive Order Urges for Medicare
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order titled, “Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.” Our Jordan Roberts analyzed the order’s provisions in his most…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that it’s hard to distinguish between flu and vaping-related illnesses. Andy Taylor’s Daily Journal challenges the claim that political polarization is based mostly…