Terry Stoops refutes myths about mass teacher layoffs; David Hoyle on helping tax collectors do their jobs; Jim Burgin on impediments posed by state's CON law; Stephan Gohmann on problems with health care mandates; Troy Kickler on Freedmen success stories…
RALEIGH — As health care delivery dominates much of our political debate, a North Carolina legislative panel is examining a little-known law that has a major impact on the services available in North Carolina. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, discussed the state’s Certificate…
RALEIGH — The certificate-of-need law makes it impossible for medical providers to build new facilities, expand existing facilities, buy new major medical equipment, or offer new services without first obtaining a “determination of need” from the Department of Health and Human Services.
RALEIGH — When a North Carolina hospital wants to expand services to a new location, add more beds at its current location, or even purchase major medical equipment, it needs permission from state government. Dr. Roy Cordato, vice president for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation, has…
A new study examines the ways that state government, not the big bad oil industry, interferes with markets in ways that damage the interests of consumers in North Carolina.
