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Judge explains injunction securing Medicaid funding of autism services
A Superior Court judge signed an order Wednesday blocking cuts to state Medicaid funding for services provided to children with autism.
Opinion
Social work licensure compact would be game changer for rural NC
The SWLC would allow licensed social workers to provide their services across state lines without having to go through multiple re-licensure processes.
Opinion
Medicaid expanded NC health-care access. But this fix could make it run smoother.
By minimizing stress points and work disincentives, we can ensure that all North Carolinians have access to the healthcare coverage they need to thrive.
Opinion
Medicaid managed care: A win-win solution for health and budgets
If the goal is to both improve the health of North Carolinians and the fiscal health of the state, Medicaid managed care is proving to be a success on both fronts.
Opinion
NC’s Innovations Waiver is lifesaving for 14k disabled, but 17k others languish on waitlist
My son, Nicholas, is 23, intellectually disabled, and autistic. He has a good life. But most North Carolinians with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities lack the services and support he receives. In North Carolina, about 14,000 people — including my son — receive the Innovations Waiver. This Medicaid waiver is our state’s primary home- and...
Opinion
The dubious linking of disease, disparity, and ‘structural racism’ in Durham
Suppose I were to tell you that in Durham County neighborhoods with the following characteristics — a lower percentage of white individuals, “lower economic and racial spatial advantage,” “higher area deprivation,” “higher reported violent crimes, evictions, poverty, unemployment, uninsurance, and child care center density, as well as lower election participation, income, and education” — that there is also a higher incidence of three chronic diseases. What...
Opinion
Is Medicaid properly helping those in the shadows?
Hubert Humphrey once said, “The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life — our needy, our sick, our handicapped. Third, those in the twilight of life — our elderly.”...
Opinion
Access to quality, affordable health care a matter of life and death
North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation in access to health care. When you consider we have great access in some parts of the state — those close to metropolitan areas and teaching hospitals in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Triad, and Triangle — the overall ranking is misleading. Access is especially poor in rural parts of the...
Opinion
Human Costs of Medicaid Expansion
The case against expansion extends beyond the impact on North Carolina's state budget.
Opinion
The Disparity in Health-Care Claims
The lack of universal, single-payer health insurance run by the government does not explain health disparities within the U.S. or between its citizens and those of other countries.
