President Joe Biden officially announced Friday the appointment of former North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Six Republican senators, including Sen. Ted Budd, NC, and twenty-two Republican House members, including Congressman Dan Bishop, NC-8, have sent a letter to President Joe Biden opposing Dr. Mandy Cohen, his pick to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
On June 10, news broke that that starting in July unaccompanied children (UACs) from the southern border would be transported to and housed at Greensboro’s American Hebrew Academy, with the federal government hiring 800 staff members to oversee the facility. Now, North Carolina’s Republican congressional delegation has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Health...
Stay home. Wear a mask at all times. Don’t interact with anyone outside your household. If you do, get tested for COVID-19, N.C. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Mandy Cohen has directed the people of North Carolina in a new set of toothless requirements from state government. She reiterated those concerns in a...
The Cooper administration may be inviting Medicaid fraud, thanks to an executive order the governor issued Tuesday, May 12. Among other things, the order lets state officials suspend or modify checks that ensure people who apply for Medicaid — the government health insurance program for low-income parents, children, the elderly, and the disabled — are...
With Gov. Roy Cooper’s desire to expand Medicaid withering on the vine, legislative leaders decided to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to block what they saw as unconstitutional action. “We are pleased Gov. Cooper abandoned his plan to defy state and federal law and unilaterally expand Obamacare in North Carolina, but remain prepared to take swift legal action if he...
The leaders of the General Assembly have sent a letter to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opposing the governor’s plan to expand Medicaid. Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, sent the letter in response to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to amend North Carolina’s Medicaid program by...
RALEIGH — The thoroughgoing reforms in Medicaid outlined 18 months ago by Gov. Pat McCrory are no closer to fruition now than they were when the governor introduced his Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina in April 2013 — and after this week’s meeting of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services, it appears that the basic structure state’s Medicaid system could remain unaltered through the 2015 long session of the General Assembly.
RALEIGH — Medicaid expansion is an outgrowth of Obamacare. The federal government offered to pay 100 percent of the costs of newly enrolled Medicaid patients for the first three years in the states that expanded their eligibility, with the reimbursement rate shrinking gradually to 90 percent by 2020. But several analysts note that the Obama administration has altered the law in the past, so it's possible funding promises could be abandoned, too.
