State officials said the troubled Medicaid billing system NC Tracks is operating more smoothly, but lawmakers said it still has significant problems. Doctors, hospitals and others who treat Medicaid... Read More
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said Tuesday it will raise rates as much as 24 percent on 2013 individual health insurance plans that are being extended next year. The increase is double... Read More
There’s nothing worse than a complainer — except a complainer who expects someone else to solve a problem. So I have a challenge for conservatives who, with good reason, rail against the state of... Read More
Now that President Obama has said it's OK with him if insurance companies keep their policyholders in health plans that don't meet the standards established by the Affordable Care Act, at least for... Read More
by Thomas Sowell, published in Real Clear Politics, November 19, 2013. A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed... Read More
Judging from Obamacare, Democrats can’t make government work. Judging from the October shutdown, Republicans don’t want it to work. What’s a democracy to do? Obamacare is essentially an old... Read More
Up in the gilded halls of Congress the Tea Partiers went on a tear last month voting against Debt Ceiling increases and budgets that didn’t cut spending but the whole proposition of fighting it out... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 19, 2013. The money isn't there. You can scan the state budget all day long, but you won't find $4.5 billion in loose change for widening and improving... Read More
The state's insurance commissioner is joining the Obama administration's plan to browbeat/lure/trick insurance companies into ignoring federal law and offering insurance plans that don't meet the... Read More
As our economy struggles to get back on its feet, it is easy for North Carolinians to focus on domestic concerns, those issues and problems that appear most pertinent to our daily lives here at home... Read More
