Jen Sidorova and Leonard Gilroy of the Reason Foundation discuss the health of North Carolina’s state pension fund. Sidorova is policy analyst for Reason’s Pension Integrity Project. Gilroy is senior managing director of that project and Reason’s vice president for government reform. Sidorova and Gilroy offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
N.C. House bill aims at protecting consumers from being financially ruined by medical debt
A North Carolina House bill aimed at protecting consumers from being financially destroyed by medical debt was filed Tuesday, May 24. H.B. 1039, Medical Debt De-Weaponization Act would create a pro-family, anti-poverty consumer protection law geared toward setting transparent parameters around the provision of charity care, limiting the ability of large medical facilities to charge unreasonable interest rates and employ unfair tactics in debt collection.