America’s convoluted, public-private health care system is filled with bad policies and inefficiencies. Government intrusion into the market has rendered it unusable and impenetrable for many. A lack of price transparency is one of the most glaring issues in America’s health care system. It’s hard to…
Jordan Roberts, John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst, discusses North Carolina’s Medicaid transformation law. Roberts offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
During a 2020 legislative session immersed in financial doubt and civil unrest, Republican lawmakers flailed against Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto power, fighting executive orders they say hurt North Carolina. It’s a political game, much like the 2019 standoff over the General Assembly’s $24 billion budget bill, which Cooper vetoed. But now, in an election year, the…
The state of North Carolina requires more than 1,500 hours of training and a year of apprenticeship before a person can become a barber. Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation director of regulatory studies, says those requirements stem from the racism that helped guide North Carolina’s earliest occupational licensing. Sanders discusses…
Chris Pope, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses his National Affairs article on “Fixing Private Health Insurance.” Pope offered these comments during an interview for the John Locke Foundation’s “HeadLocke” podcast.
This coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. It has burrowed deep into our communities, our hospitals, our psyches. It won’t magically disappear, despite all the wishing. The hoping and the dreaming. We’re hurting. In the eye of a hurricane it’s futile to try to assess the damage. We’re…
It’s trite to say the country is divided. It’s a presidential election year and the racially charged protests over police conduct ended whatever fleeting moment of national unity there was in the age of coronavirus. Splits along racial, generational, and ideological lines run deep, and much ink…
Jordan Roberts, John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst, discusses how the COVID-19 impact has affected finances for N.C. hospitals and health care providers. Roberts offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Josh Archambault, senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability, discusses barriers to health care innovation in North Carolina. Archambault offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
A lawsuit has helped expose controversy surrounding a multimillion-dollar N.C. Medicaid contract. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, dissects the issue. He says evidence suggests that state regulators manipulated the bidding process to help a favored company. State Auditor Beth Wood recently revealed that the N.C. Transportation…
