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Notifications begin rolling out for newly eligible NC Medicaid enrollees

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) began sending out letters last week to up to 300,000 people who are enrolled in Medicaid’s limited Family Planning program and now qualify for full NC Medicaid benefits starting Dec. 1 thanks to Medicaid expansion that was passed earlier this year by the General Assembly and fully became law with the passage of the state budget in September.

Theresa Opeka

N.C. sees large decline in number of people enrolling on federal health-care exchange

North Carolina saw a 10.5 percent decline in the number of people signing up for insurance on the federal health marketplace under Obamacare for 2017. Only two other states had larger drop-offs. According to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 613,487 North Carolina residents signed up for insurance on the exchange last year....

Dan Way

North Carolina’s Dwindling Obamacare Options

The irony of Obamacare is that its health insurance exchanges are suffering from a problem that was supposed to be avoided – what health economists call adverse selection. When health insurance plans must cover people with pre-existing conditions and they are not allowed to charge premiums that reflect the risk of those conditions, then people...

Insurer: Obamacare Premiums About To Surge

RALEIGH — While North Carolina has been touted by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, as Obamacare is formally known, as one of the nation’s top success stories in recruiting uninsured people to sign up on the HealthCare.gov exchange, Rufus Langley, state leader of the North Carolina Association of Health Underwriters, predicted 10 percent of Obamacare participants may owe the IRS money at the end of the year.

Dan Way

The Vanishing Obamacare Mandate

The tax that once was viewed as the centerpiece of Obamacare is almost devoid of life.

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Are We Witnessing the Individual Mandate’s Demise?

There appears to be little life left in this centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act.

Friday Interview: Obamacare’s Lingering Problems

RALEIGH — Headlines in recent months have attracted attention to technical problems associated with HealthCare.gov, the primary website associated with the federal Affordable Care Act. While some technical issues remain to be resolved, Hadley Heath, senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, focuses her attention on other, more far-reaching flaws in the law known popularly as Obamacare. Heath shared her concerns with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff

Young Invincibles Are Just Not That Into Obamacare

Enrollment numbers continue to fall short of expectations within the Affordable Care Act's most coveted demographic.

Problems Pile Up For Obamacare Implementation

Each week seems to bring a new revelation about negative unintended consequences associated with the federal Affordable Care Act.

Obamacare Supporters and Opponents Court Millennials

RALEIGH — A rhetorical battle over whether young adults should sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act reached the White House last week, when President Obama called a conservative group’s efforts to inform so-called millennials about alternatives to the health care law “bizarre.”

Barry Smith