SB 266 and HR 1 revive a principle NC has upheld in law for decades: delivering electricity at the lowest feasible cost without sacrificing reliability.
In government-run systems, that scarcity doesn't go away. It's just that bureaucrats and government boards, rather than insurance companies, decide what is covered and what is not.
In February 2019, after months of negotiation, Western North Carolina’s Mission Hospital was sold to HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company. HCA Healthcare owns 184 hospitals across the U.S. and United Kingdom. Mission is its first hospital in North Carolina. After the sale, complaints from residents were filed in the attorney general’s office, and, on Feb....
Surgeon Wade Naziri offers his patients transparent, cash-based prices at his independent surgery center. It’s a novel concept in an environment of rising costs and hidden prices. Naziri began fighting for price transparency because his patients couldn’t afford out-of-network weight loss surgery at Greenville’s local hospital — which billed one of his patients $54,000. So,...
Government is inevitable and necessary because human beings are flawed creatures with temptations, inherent in our unchangeable human natures, to break the very rules that allow civilization to flourish.
The Democratic party’s most radically progressive candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, have promised to impose a tax on wealth. To be clear, wealth is distinct from income. Wealth is accumulated income in the form of savings and investments and real assets such as real estate, antique or art collections, plant and equipment for a...
Ten years ago, the passage of Obamacare vastly increased the federal government’s role in our health–care system. The health care overhaul was sold to the American people as a solution for skyrocketing costs and high uninsured rates. While some uninsured gained coverage, the law further complicated America’s complex system, which continues to fail so many...
North Carolina should not let its licensing laws block rural residents from accessing out-of-state specialists as long as those physicians are in good standing with their home states’ medical boards.
To the extent voters wanted a check on Trump, they’ve already gotten it with a Democratic U.S. House, so our 2019 special congressional elections will play out in a very different context.
If the Democratic Party makes a sharp left turn, on health care or other issues, it will lose winnable races in 2020.
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