News
$12.7M Medicaid fraud scheme exposes wider program concerns
Medicaid fraud has become a widespread issue, across the country and in NC, where there were almost 400 allegations in 2025.
Opinion
Pregnancy care centers are worth every penny of state funding
The General Assembly should increase the funding to these centers in order to promote a culture of life in our state and to provide resources for vulnerable women and babies.
News
Democrats, unions fighting move to open disciplinary records as Cooper remains quiet
A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it. Lawmakers filed Senate Bill 355, the Government Transparency Act of 2021, in late March, and it has been mired in committee since. Republic Sens. Norm Sanderson of Craven County, Bill...
Opinion
Newspaper editorial asking Cooper to get ‘heavy handed’ is irresponsible, shameful
I’m tired. Tired of the lecturing from Gov. Roy Cooper and his cohorts. Tired of waiting for his edicts. Tired of his pedantic lecturing. I’ve written about that. All of it. I’ve written about it probably way too much, as a colleague mentioned to me this week. “How often can you write about being tired?”...
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Government won’t solve opioid crisis
Opioid addiction can be fatal, but government policies would probably make a bad situation worse, many experts say. Rising rates of opioid abuse led President Trump recently to declare a national emergency. Critics of the current approach insist state and federal officials continually use misuse the word “epidemic.” Even so, a serious problem exists, and...
Opinion
Medical Care Can Be Inexpensive
As health insurance is becoming more expensive, curiously, some basic health care is becoming more affordable because an increasing number of primary care physicians are taking upfront cash payments rather than accepting insurance.
Opinion
Unleash a Competitive Health Insurance Market
There are ways to cover "uninsurable" people without imposing new mandates.
Opinion
Unleash a Competitive Health Insurance Market
Alternatives to Obamacare would address more effectively health coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.
News
Statewide Health Records Exchange Raises Privacy Concerns
RALEIGH — As the North Carolina medical community presses ahead with a sweeping conversion to electronic health records, privacy advocates warn that confidential medical data is in jeopardy, and patients’ most intimate health information could be used in harmful ways against them — or at a minimum mined for profit by pharmaceutical companies, medical providers, or other entities.
Opinion
Better Tool for Portability
Health care portability is an important goal. But COBRA isn’t the right way to do it, subsidy or not.
Opinion
Health Care Battle Returns
The great debate over health inflation didn't end with the demise of HillaryCare in 1993. It's back with a vengeance, as demonstrated by our state budget crisis and double-digit increases in private insurance costs.
