Health Care
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New Carolina Journal Online Features
Donna King reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state House bill to join an interstate licensing agreement for mental health counselors. Mitch Kokai’s CJ Opinion rebuts false claims about…
Cooper Administration: FIVE MONTHS Behind Other States in Reporting Deaths to the CDC
There's simply no excuse for this. It shows where Gov. Roy Cooper, state health bureaucrat Mandy Cohen, and the rest of the administration's priorities are. It's conceivably difficult to maintain…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Johnny Kampis reports for Carolina Journal Online on North Carolina’s work to boost broadband access. The CJ Opinion highlights a state health care policy that promotes bullying and scare tactics…
Doctors’ Group Opposes Biden’s COVID Door-Knock Campaign
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons highlights its concerns about the Biden administration’s approach to COVID vaccinations. The Biden Administration has announced plans to send agents “door to door”…
Stakeholders meet to discuss SAVE Act
Yesterday afternoon, sponsors of the SAVE Act gathered a stakeholder meeting at the North Carolina General Assembly. The SAVE Act is a piece of legislation that would modernize the regulations…
Former McCrory Commerce Pick Advocates for Medicaid Expansion
Sharon Decker, NC Department of Commerce secretary during the McCrory administration in 2013-14, authored this editorial recently published at WRAL.com. Decker attempts to make the case for North Carolina to…
Certificate of Need: A Bad Law Leads to Bad Behavior
People with a medical need for mobile PET scanners are harmed while health care companies wage high-stakes battles in state courts over state agency decisions regarding a law that 15…
“Need”? Health Consumers Don’t Need So Much Time Wasted, Money Spent on CON Shenanigans
In 2018, the state Division of Health Service Regulation determined that the people of North Carolina "needed" one — and only one — new mobile PET scanner. Three years and…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Jeff Moore reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state court opinion that exposes the “cutthroat world” of North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion asks whether social justice…
Federal Health Officials Botching Their Work
Sally Pipes writes for National Review Online about failures at the federal Centers for Disease Control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deserve much of the blame for…
Latest CON Court Ruling Exposes Underbelly of Outdated N.C. Health Regulation
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed the state’s decision to award InSight Health Corp. a certificate of need for a mobile PET/CT scanner. It’s…
“Lockdowns … probably delayed the evolution of the virus into a milder form.”
That’s a key line from a Twitter thread by “rational optimist” Matt Ridley. Here’s the whole thread: Earlier in the year the same was said about the alpha (Kent) variant,…