Opinion
Reforming NC’s healthcare system with fresh food and free markets
Food is medicine, and it must become an integral part of our healthcare strategy.
Opinion
Is Medicaid properly helping those in the shadows?
Hubert Humphrey once said, “The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life — our needy, our sick, our handicapped. Third, those in the twilight of life — our elderly.”...
Opinion
Direct primary care pays off for one N.C. county government
Once considered too good to be true, direct primary care is generating tangible benefits for one N.C. county government.
Opinion
Flashback: About The Prevent Defense
The proper conclusion is that expansive government “reforms” of health care cannot be funded by phantom savings from preventive care.
Opinion
Some Cuts Are Just Cuts
Most of the Medicaid patients who will no longer be eligible for in-home services were never at significant risk of institutionalization in the first place.
Opinion
New federal guidelines on mammograms are about money, not health
RALEIGH -- This is not a health science debate. It's not about the credentials of people on the new federal panel, though in a real debate it would be. It has nothing to do with the science, but is and will be repudiated soundly by same.
Opinion
Understanding The Prevent Defense
The proper conclusion is that expansive government “reforms” of health care cannot be funded by phantom savings from preventive care.
Opinion
Three Markers Of Faulty Health Policy
There are three markers for judging the superficiality of a politician’s knowledge of health-care policy.
Opinion
Preventing the Misuse of “Cost-Shifting”
As a major explanation for the decades-long trend of escalating health-care costs, the use of emergency care by the uninsured just doesn’t suffice.
Opinion
A New Prescription for Medicaid
The state’s new Medicaid director is a physician. He is urging more primary care to reduce long-term costs, but more fundamental restructuring is needed.
Opinion
The Hype about Preventive Care
Activists cite lack of health coverage for some as a rally cry for universal, government-run health insurance for all. They are mistaken.
Opinion
Health Care Honesty & Hooey
In North Carolina and elsewhere, policymakers in health care are debating whether limiting or expanding coverage of prescription drugs, home health, and other services will save money. The answer is: it depends.
