Katherine Restrepo, John Locke Foundation director of health care policy, discusses Obamacare subsidies and rising health care costs. Restrepo offered these comments for an Oct. 18, 2017, report on Spectrum News.
RALEIGH — Medical researchers should be allowed to dive “into the weeds,” a handful of U.S. senators who want to roll back regulations for marijuana studies say. The Marijuana Effective Drug Study Act of 2017, sponsored by Sen. Orrin…
Katherine Restrepo, John Locke Foundation director of health care policy, discusses health care “deserts” during an Oct. 13, 2017, report for WGHP (MyFox8).
State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to save North Carolina nearly $400 million. Folwell wants Congress to extend the one-year moratorium on the Obamacare health insurance tax, which hurt self-insured health plans like North Carolina’s. The tax also affects those with Medicare…
President Donald Trump won North Carolina in 2016, but his approval ratings in the state continue to slide, poll data from Elon University and Spectrum News North Carolina show. Beginning in 2000, Elon has conducted several…
North Carolina has so many regulations it would take a dozen 40-hour weeks, reading 300 words per minute, to navigate the state administrative code, researchers say. The code contains 109,350 restrictions and some 8.7 million words. The most restrictive regulations involve utilities. Nursing and residential care…
North Carolina’s certificate-of-need rules restrict growth in health care services. New Bern ophthalmologist Dr. Jay Singleton offered a firsthand account of the obstacles created by CON restrictions during a presentation Monday for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 750: North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions continue to block medical providers from developing new facilities and purchasing major equipment unless they obtain state government’s permission slip. Katherine Restrepo, John Locke Foundation director of health care policy, discusses the latest case in which overly burdensome…
The N.C. General Assembly returns to work Oct. 4. In addition to gubernatorial vetoes and unresolved bills from this year’s regular “long session,” legislators could address proposed constitutional amendments and a plan to redraw judicial election maps. Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, analyzes legislators’ priorities as they…
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, discusses possible Trump administration executive orders that would enact health care reforms. Gray offered these comments during the Sept. 27, 2017, edition of Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight.”…
