In an exclusive interview with Carolina Journal, North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger Berger emphasized the need to move toward a more efficient funding model, advocating for block grants that would streamline relief efforts and give states more control in handling recovery processes.
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 Medicaid a tool to control costs...
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.
State and local governments and spendthrift children could benefit from the same lesson.
Despite the North Carolina legislature and other federal obstacles standing in the way, Gov. Roy Cooper is relentless in attempts to expand Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health services at no cost to low-income children, parents, pregnant women, aged, blind, and disabled. In his proposed 2017-19 budget released, the first recommended change listed under...
Rep. Paul Ryan's provision giving states block grants for Medicaid would improve the health care program and reduce burdens on North Carolina taxpayers.
GREENSBORO — During its last two meetings, the council has been presented with plans that could alter the city’s future radically. In both cases, the council voted to “accept” those plans rather than “adopt” them.
Policing Medicaid fraud is a good idea. But it’s a first step, not the entire journey.
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