Republican legislative leaders dismiss lawsuit against Cooper over Medicaid...
Legislative leaders announced Thursday that they were dismissing their federal lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper because he didn’t follow through on “threats” to expand Medicaid. Senate President Pro Tem...
View ArticleNC’s and the nation’s uninsured rate has fallen to a historic low under ACA,...
Here’s some important and quick facts that all Americans and North Carolinians should know this week, when the Senate will formally vote in an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act: The United...
View ArticleSenate to vote today on mystery health care bill
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell aren’t giving up on passing damaging legislation to repeal and (maybe) replace the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. Despite McConnell...
View ArticleJustice Center: Time for Burr, Tillis to move beyond repeal discussion, make...
The North Carolina Justice Center issued the following response to this morning’s Senate healthcare vote in which the latest Affordable Care Act repeal proposal was defeated: Relief for North...
View ArticleWhy is NC sicker than almost all other states?
The Fayetteville Observer gets right to the heart of the matter this morning in an editorial entitled “Living in NC is bad for our health.” As the essay points out, North Carolinians are near the...
View ArticleOut of touch with what’s really important: Tillis’ “poll” is a sad commentary
There are obviously a lot of serious problems confronting North Carolina and the nation right now: existential environmental crises, a dishonest and incompetent president who has made unholy alliances...
View ArticleIt’s past time for the president to stop sabotaging the ACA
Even though efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act outright appear to be dead for now, President Trump, in keeping with his misleading “promise” to let the law “fail on its own,” continues to work...
View ArticleNew Elon Poll tackles DACA, NFL protests, Confederate monuments
The new Elon University Poll results are out and they give an interesting snapshot of North Carolina’s opinions on a range of controversial issues. On the ongoing controversy over the removal of...
View ArticleTrump’s order on contraceptives is sure to do great damage
In case you missed it over the weekend, the good people at the Kaiser Family Foundation released an important report on Friday about one of the Trump administration’s latest and most shameful...
View ArticleWhat you should know about Trump’s latest disastrous action on healthcare
A statement from the North Carolina Justice Center (the parent organization of NC Policy Watch) explains today’s potentially disastrous Trump administration effort to further undermine the Affordable...
View ArticleExplained: Trump’s latest mad health policy diktat
From the health policy experts at the NC Justice Center… Health Care Sabotage Effort Puts a “Trump Tax” on North Carolinians’ Premiums Next Year Latest move will increase North Carolinians’ premiums by...
View ArticleLatest estimate: 4,000 Americans have died already because of Trump...
In case you missed it yesterday, the latest numbers show that millions of Americans lost their health insurance last year as conservative policies in Washington and around the country began to take...
View ArticleNational experts assail Trump’s latest healthcare treachery
In case you missed it, the Trump administration has launched yet another outrageous attack on the Affordable Care Act today. Under the new proposed rule, the ACA ban on junk/sham health insurance...
View ArticleRecord ACA profits for Blue Cross NC in 2017, but uncertainty remains due to...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced today that it turned an unexpectedly high profit in 2017, earning $734 million in net income, largely in part due to a profitable line of business in...
View ArticlePolicy Prescription #6 – The case for Medicaid expansion remains as strong as...
As the 2018 legislative session gets underway in earnest in this, its first full week, we hope you will continue reading our special series “Policy Prescriptions” researched and written by A. J....
View ArticleICYMI: Business, law enforcement leaders speak out for closing Medicaid...
In case you missed it, there have been two new and compelling op-eds in recent days from unlikely sources about Medicaid expansion and the ongoing critical need for North Carolina to expand it under...
View ArticleIn surprise revision to school safety bill, Senate Republicans seek insurance...
A bipartisan-backed proposal to help North Carolina schools recruit campus psychologists received a major makeover in a Senate committee Thursday that may destabilize the state’s Affordable Care Act...
View ArticleCharlotte Observer condemns legislative plan to end protection for people...
In case you missed it this morning, there was an excellent editorial in the Charlotte Observer condemning the last-minute scheme by Republican leaders at the General Assembly to undermine one of the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina advocates, health care leaders press again for Medicaid expansion
Roughly five years after North Carolina lawmakers dismissed calls to join a federally-backed program that would have extended health care access to an estimated 500,000 low-income residents, advocates...
View ArticleAnother act of health care sabotage over the weekend from the Trump...
On Saturday, the Trump administration announced it would temporarily suspend a program that helps health insurers in the individual market cover the costs of high-risk enrollees, injecting uncertainty...
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