John Locke Foundation Senior Vice President Becki Gray and Chairman John Hood discuss factors that led to the delay of North Carolina’s Medicaid transformation from a fee-for-service program to managed care. Gray and Hood offered these comments during the Nov. 29, 2019, edition of “NC SPIN.”…
When her teenage son collapsed in a seizure, it hit High Point mother Kelly Kinard. Luka was addicted. He was vaping the equivalent of 80 cigarettes per day, and it took sending him to rehab in California to get him to stop. “We see our kid’s…
North Carolina hemp farmers are bracing for an onslaught of federal regulation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Oct. 31 released a new interim final rule that will govern all state hemp programs. While many of the federal stipulations for testing…
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses national Republicans’ recent health care proposals. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 22, 2019, edition of UNC-TV’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”…
A doctor suing to overturn restrictions on patient care just won his first victory. Special Superior Court Judge Gregory McGuire on Wednesday, Nov. 20, rejected the state’s request to throw out Dr. Gajendra Singh’s case, allowing Singh to continue fighting the Certificate of Need regime…
Medicaid transformation will be a casualty of the budget stalemate. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday, Nov. 19, that Medicaid transformation would be placed on hold indefinitely. That announcement came hours after Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, issued a news…
Mecklenburg County voters recently rejected a sales-tax increase. It was advertised as raising money for “arts and parks.” Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, has examined the impact of the timing of local sales-tax votes on the likelihood of their approval. He’s found that voters are less likely to…
North Carolina public school teachers and higher education employees hoping to get a pay raise will have to wait. Perhaps until January. Gov. Roy Cooper, at a Friday, Nov. 7, Executive Mansion news conference, announced a veto of four mini-budgets, including measures giving preK-12 teachers a…
Congressional Democrats are trying to take away what little potential flexibility states have over their health insurance markets. If they are successful in their challenge to a new Trump administration rule, states will lose out on increased opportunities to use federal waivers for innovation in state health insurance markets. …
Jordan Roberts, John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst, discusses his work with the group RIP Medical Debt to help pay off medical debt for low-income patients in North Carolina and South Carolina. Roberts offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
