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New info: Blue Cross turned a $185 million profit in 2016, minimized ACA...

On March 1, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina provided a year-end financial report for its health insurance business in 2016. What we learned is telling: after turning a small profit the...

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Weekend news, commentary shine a light on looming Trumpcare chaos

One gets the real sense right now that the lid is about to fly off the pot of health care stew that conservatives are cooking up in Congress and that the mess that is sure to ensue is going to soil and...

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Congress sneaking in last-minute change to make Trumpcare even worse

Ahead of a floor vote scheduled for later today, Republican leadership in the House has realized that they do not have enough votes right now to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Trump-Ryan...

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The best editorial of the weekend

This week’s top entry come from the Fayetteville Observer and it provides another powerful reminder of the North Carolina Republican majority’s most outrageous action (or inaction) of the past four...

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Encouraging crack in the facade: GOP lawmaker proposes Medicaid expansion for NC

The bill is inadequate. It bears some resemblances to “Pence-care” — the watered down Medicaid expansion law that the nation’s embarrassingly hypocritical Vice President ushered in while serving as...

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Nothing has changed: Reviving GOP health care bill would mean more uninsured,...

President Trump earlier this week stated that he still wants to reform healthcare in America, even though Congress – with its Republican majority – failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act...

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Nothing has changed (Part 2): Reported amendment to GOP health care bill guts...

Last week, we reported reviving the GOP health care bill would mean more uninsured, costlier coverage in North Carolina. On Friday unfortunately, Republicans in Congress reportedly reached agreement on...

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New Elon Poll results: Trump’s support declining in N.C.

The new Elon University Poll is out today – and it shows declining support for President Donald Trump in North Carolina. The live-caller, dual frame (landline and cell phone) survey of 506 likely...

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Analysis: GOP health care bill will exacerbate budgetary challenges to all...

As reported yesterday, members of the U.S. House narrowly (217-213) pushed through the Republican plan for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. The latest version came without any analysis...

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On Mother’s Day: Remember Medicaid works for women – but proposed cuts would...

This weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day. Next week we celebrate National Women’s Health Week. The fact is women play an important role in society every day and one thing we can always do for them is...

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Tillis: Preexisting condition issue “pretty important” but should be left up...

North Carolina senator Thom Tillis has a not terribly encouraging take on Trumpcare and the prospect of repealing the vital guarantee in the Affordable Care Act that Americans cannot be denied health...

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GOP health care bill would hurt one million rural North Carolinians who...

A new report finds the House-passed health bill – the American Health Care Act – would devastate health care in rural America, primarily because of the dismantling of Medicaid. This is concerning...

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Democratic state senators call on budget chairs to preserve key ACA protections

A group of Democratic North Carolina senators is calling on the chairs of the conference committee that is negotiating the final state budget bill to protect the health are of hundreds of thousands of...

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GOP’s health plan secrecy and Medicaid per-capita caps should raise alarms in NC

As Americans we should always expect a transparent and open government. An open government strengthens our democracy and promotes accountability, efficiency and effectiveness in government....

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Attention Burr and Tillis: U.S. Senate plan to gut Medicaid would be...

While US Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr are enjoying their Fourth of July recess, children, working families, veterans, older adults, and people with disabilities are worried that the Senate...

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Latest data: NC will not come close to 2020 health objectives; legislature’s...

One of North Carolina’s goals is “to be one of the healthiest states in the nation.” However, the reality is that our state is not on track to reach this goal anytime soon. Every 10 years since 1990,...

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BCRAP: Latest acronym for Senate health care bill says it all

A statement issued yesterday afternoon by the good people at the North Carolina Justice Health Advocacy Project put things plainly and bluntly in describing the latest dreadful U.S. Senate healthcare...

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When will the Right realize it has lost the healthcare debate?

At some point, you’ve got to think that congressional Republicans will finally understand that they’ve done enough damage to the country with their repeated failed efforts to hose up the nation’s...

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Senate GOP health “repeal without replacement” proposal would do great harm...

By now many have heard that the proposed Senate GOP “repeal and replace” health care bill is dead after some Senate Republicans could not support it. However, the bad news is that Senate Majority...

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Scathing letter to the editor calls out Phil Berger as his hometown hospital...

Winston-Salem Journal reader and letter to the editor writer Wendy Marshall had some powerful words for North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem and Medicaid expansion opponent Phil Berger (pictured at...

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