Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Association Health Plans Are About Choice
From Medicaid expansion to the State Health Plan fight, health care issues in this legislative session have been in the spotlight. Now another policy issue seems to have attracted attention…
AP highlights dental therapy profession
A recent article by the Associated Press highlights dental therapists and their benefits: It can be hard to keep smiles healthy in rural areas, where dentists are few and far…
JLF In The News: JLF Researcher Jordan Roberts And CJ Reporter Julie Havlak Quoted In Forbes
This week, the John Locke Foundation’s Jordan Roberts and Carolina Journal’s Julie Havlak were quoted in a recent opinion piece in Forbes, written by Patrick Gleason . While the piece…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Carolina Journal Online reports on a bill before Gov. Roy Cooper that would help more small businesses offer health insurance to their employees. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains how N.C.…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolina state government ended the last budget year with a revenue surplus of almost $900 million. That’s more than $200 million more than officials had expected just three months…
JLF’s Jordan Roberts Offers Five Ways to Lower Health Care Costs in the Fayetteville Observer
Last week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published an opinion piece in the Fayetteville Observer on methods to lower the cost of health care. According to Roberts, health care expenditures have gotten…
Medicaid expansion and improper eligibility
Former special assistant to President Trump at the National Economic Council, Brian Blase, and University of Kentucky economics professor, Aaron Yelowitz, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about…
Local Doctor Sues the State over “Arcane” CON Laws
This week, the Winston-Salem Journal published a piece on Dr. Gajendra Singh, a surgeon providing low-cost screenings and health care services. According to the story: [Singh is] suing the state…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on Gov. Roy Cooper’s gun-related executive order. The Daily Journal highlights a recent court ruling that exposes a key problem with North Carolina’s…
Man bites dog! CNN highlights Bernie Sanders’ serial falsehoods
Daniel Dale of CNN.com highlights an inconvenient fact for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is once again saying on the campaign trail and in interviews…
A(n overly) simple finding in the obesity fight
Baylen Linnekin writes for Reason.com about a new nugget of research in the fight against fat. I was heartened this week to learn about a University of Iowa study that’s…
More price transparency in health care
James Capretta offers a two-step plan at RealClearPolicy.com for increasing price transparency in health care. Promoting a stronger consumer role will require far more disruption of the status quo. In…