From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 672: The nation recently marked the sixth anniversary of the controversial Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. That federal law has generated plenty of problems for American health care, but there are opportunities for N.C. policymakers to take steps that would help improve the situation. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s health and human services policy analyst, discusses steps North Carolina could take to improve the state’s health care freedom.
Six years into Obamacare, plenty of opportunity for health care improvement
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