Opinion
Expand options for behavioral health
Given the stakes, we can’t afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. There is no such thing as perfection here. There are only differences in priorities.
Opinion
Obamacare Sets Up SHOP
A plan within Obamacare that was sold as a way to expand health insurance options for employees in small businesses offers workers few enticements to get coverage.
News
Campbell Med School Seeks To Fill Gaps in Rural Coverage
BUIES CREEK — Campbell University expects to play a lead role in the transformation of health care delivery in North Carolina, and to aid ailing rural communities by sending them health care professionals from its new School of Osteopathic Medicine, school officials said Thursday. With plans to graduate 150 physicians and 40 physician assistants per year, Campbell could become the state's second-largest medical school.
Opinion
Government Nannies Let Parents Off The Hook
It should surprise no one that government officials who want to run more aspects of our lives believe we have a collective responsibility to monitor kids’ eating habits.
News
Childhood Obesity Task Force Looks Into Home Visits
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Institute of Medicine’s Task Force on Early Childhood Obesity Prevention, which has spent the last two years brainstorming new policy ideas to decrease obesity in children, soon may go beyond school cafeterias and private child care facilities and take its programs right through parents’ front doors.
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Institute of Medicine Study Overstates Number of Uninsured Due to Medicaid Rejection
RALEIGH — A study by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine concludes that 500,000 people would be left uninsured by the state’s refusal to expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act. But the estimate is contradicted by that same study, as well as other state sources.
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Obamacare’s Impact on Low-Income Workers Debated
RALEIGH — Tax subsidies in Obamacare could push at least half of privately insured, lower-income North Carolinians into the federal health exchange and off of private coverage, critics of the federal health reform law say. Backers of the law say such “crowd-out” will be much smaller, perhaps less than 10 percent.
Opinion
About Those Medicaid Jobs Claims
An expansion financed by federal tax hikes, Medicare cuts, and state tax or budget changes means that some jobs will be created and other jobs will be lost.
Opinion
More on Medicaid Crowd-Out
Some people who ought to know better claim that virtually no low-income households have private health insurance. So they deny the risk of crowd-out from Medicaid expansion.
Opinion
Looking Past the Spin on Medicaid and Exchanges
The N.C. General Assembly and governor have adopted the real free-market, limited-government approach to Obamacare's costliest provisions.
News
Friday Interview: Pandemic planning
RALEIGH — No one likes the flu, but imagine a flu season that proves more widespread than those we have been accustomed to dealing with: an influenza pandemic. It’s a possibility discussed during a recent speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Mark Holmes, vice president of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, delivered the speech. He also spoke with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
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Report: Reform Individuals, Not State
RALEIGH — An expansion of the state-federal Medicaid program is a prescription for more health care problems, a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report argues. Instead, consumers should manage their own health care.
