Health care
‘Executive compensation’ regulation would hurt North Country hospitals
New Hampshire has been lucky. Since 2005, 110 rural hospitals in the United States have closed, and another 85 have converted to an out-patient service provider. Maine was home to three of those conversions and one closure,…
North Carolina Medicaid after the OBBB: Policy prescriptions
In a previous article, I documented how total Medicaid expenditures in North Carolina surged from $18.14 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2021 to $35.77 billion in FY 2025 — a staggering 97.2 percent increase in just four years.…
The trouble with rational basis review, part one: A case study
For more than five years, New Bern eye surgeon Jay Singleton has been trying to get a North Carolina court to hear his claim that the state’s Certificate of Need law violates several provisions of the state constitution…
The Hidden Economics of Drug Pricing
Watch for the episode to go live here on Thursday, January 29th at 3:00 PM MST. This month’s Frontier Briefing features a conversation with Antonio Ciaccia, CEO of 46brooklyn Research and President of 3Axis Advisors, on the…
How NC legislators can provide relief for unaffordable health care costs
Health insurance has become unaffordable for far too many North Carolinians Obamacare and a myriad of other regulations have caused health care costs to explode There is, however, a loophole that state legislators can take…
Documenting America’s ‘great divorce’
Editors at Issues and Insights ponder America’s migration trends. When U-Haul released its latest “Growth Index” this week, it made us wonder if blue states will ever get a clue. Once again, the index found a strong migration…
Democrats’ Shutdown Surrender A Gift To Trump And Congressional Republicans
The longest government shutdown in American history, 40 days of furloughed feds and finger-pointing, whimpered to an end Sunday night. Eight Senate Democrats, weary of their own party’s lack of a credible path to victory,…
The disingenuous fearmongering of Josh Stein on Medicaid
Gov. Josh Stein has been playing politics with the healthcare of millions of North Carolinians. Beginning Oct. 1, Stein ordered DHHS to reduce reimbursement rates for several Medicaid services because, according to him, the…
Dems quiet as they drop health care plans for illegals
Matt Margolis writes for PJMedia.com about a little-discussed shift in Democrats’ policy priorities. Democrats spent years insisting that providing free healthcare to illegal immigrants was a moral imperative. They haven’t…
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