Ten years after the US Supreme Court handed down an antitrust ruling against North Carolina’s dental board, similar boards across the country have done little to respond to the high court’s decision. That’s a key finding in a new report the Pacific Legal Foundation released Wednesday.
About a dozen protesters stood in the rain on an Asheville sidewalk at Mission Health on Friday, Aug. 21. Some held umbrellas or “Vote No” signs. A white banner draped over the medical center’s logo urged nurses, “don’t give your voice away.” Passing drivers occasionally honked car horns. Mission Health, the state’s sixth-largest hospital system,...
Federal regulators are getting increasingly uneasy with proposals such as a partnership involving UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System. Such arrangements, critics say, inhibit competition and raise the potential for anti-trust violations. Devon Herrick, a health economist and policy adviser to the Heartland Institute in Illinois, got straight to the point. “It’s not really...
More complaints about gasoline prices are appearing in the media, but with a new and different twist. This time, prices are too low for some people's liking. The source of the problem? Price competition. As you might guess, though, it's not consumers who are complaining.
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