Jordan Roberts

Health Policy Analyst
Jordan joined the Locke Foundation in the summer of 2018 as Health Care Policy Analyst. He analyzes state and national health policy issues with an eye toward removing government barriers and instead infusing health care with free-market solutions that encourage competition, expand access to quality care, and lower costs.

Jordan is a Charlotte native. He holds two Political Science degrees from Appalachian State University: a B.S. in American Government and an M.A. in American Politics.

Jordan was a legislative intern for U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and a research intern for the John Locke Foundation.

Posts by Jordan Roberts (page 1)

  • Treasurer Folwell extends SHP deadline

    The second most contentious health care issue in North Carolina this year behind Medicaid expansion is the proposed changes to the State Health Plan. The State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the Board of Trustees for the Plan set out to change the way that the State Health Plan…
    Jordan Roberts, July 23, 2019

  • Mental health issues among America’s youngest generations

    In this month’s Carolina Journal, I wrote about a sensitive subject to many: mental health. I wrote about a trend that I, and many others, find alarming. That is the trend of our youngest generations developing mental health issues such as…
    Jordan Roberts, July 17, 2019
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  • CON reform moving

    Certificate of Need reform in the North Carolina General Assembly saw some movement last night. House Bill 126, which was rewritten to include CON reform, passed out of the Senate Health Committee and was sent to the Rules Committee. The NC Senate is…
    Jordan Roberts, July 16, 2019
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  • Telemedicine and rural America

    An NPR story from earlier this week highlights the benefits of telemedicine, or telehealth, for those in rural areas of the country: Telehealth turned Jill Hill’s life around. The 63-year-old lives on the edge of rural Grass Valley, an old mining…
    Jordan Roberts, July 11, 2019

  • Managed care rollout threatened by budget stalemate

    The Governor and the Republican leadership in the General Assembly both have their feet dug in on the budget battle. The fiscal year ended at the end of June and North Carolina currently does not have a budget for the new biennium (FY 2019-21).   The Senate…
    Jordan Roberts, July 10, 2019
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  • My response to a Wilmington Star News reader on Medicaid Expansion

    Back on June 26th, the Wilmington Star News published a letter to the editor written by myself which was a response to an editorial by the newspaper which called on North Carolina to expand Medicaid. In the allotted space, I explained that despite…
    Jordan Roberts, July 8, 2019

  • The grim reality of some “non-profit” hospitals

    Earlier this week, I posted on the blog about a hospital CFO touting his hospital system’s monopoly power as a way to extract profitable reimbursement from the insurers in the area. This is a dim reality in the U.S. health care system that is dominated by hospital…
    Jordan Roberts, July 3, 2019

  • The reality of hospital system monopolies

    I write a lot about hospital consolidations and the monopoly problem in health care (See here, here, here, here, and here). It’s widely…
    Jordan Roberts, July 1, 2019
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