As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower. Well, that might not be the exact line, but the sentiment is shared across the political spectrum. Still, examples in other states and at the federal level provide frequent reminders that cutting taxes without cutting spending is…
Gov. Roy Cooper’s price tag for Medicaid expansion could be off by as much as $171.3 million, a report by the John Locke Foundation says. Medicaid expansion has dominated Cooper’s fights with the Republican legislature. Cooper’s pitch comes in the form…
Gov. Roy Cooper owns this. He owns the coronavirus response and everything that will follow. Cooper has refused to confer with the Council of State, vetoed the General Assembly’s efforts to get businesses safely opened and people back to work, relied solely on…
Brandon has three little girls, no job, and no health insurance. His company launched mass furloughs just weeks after North Carolina shut down its economy over the coronavirus pandemic. Brandon’s job didn’t last long, and his health insurance became a casualty. Brandon is familiar…
Amid the pandemic, state lawmakers and liberal advocacy groups continue a push to expand Medicaid, as allowed by the Affordable Care Act. Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Medicaid expansion is optional, state lawmakers have decided against moving…
Republican lawmakers are considering temporarily expanding Medicaid to cover uninsured residents’ coronavirus testing and treatment, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said during a meeting of the House Committee on COVID-19 Health Care Working Group. Medicaid expansion derailed last year’s budget, after Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the…
The Trump administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week unveiled a new model for how states could finance and design benefit plans for the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — Medicaid expansion population. The new federal guidance gives states that have expanded…
Democrats and Republicans have been debating health care reform for decades in Washington. It’s the wrong location — and which national plan to adopt is the wrong question.
The N.C. Senate will conclude its business this week, with or without overriding the governor’s budget veto, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said during a Monday, Oct. 28, news conference. What the rest of the week looks like depends on whether the Senate…
They saw a helicopter hover for a moment above the hospital, and head east. They weren’t sure, but they thought their son was inside. Jean and Dale Andersen didn’t know how bad it was. An hour before, Dale had been calling his 19-year-old…
