Health care

Jonathan LaForce urges Federalist website readers to remain wary of single-payer health care. People keep talking about single-payer health care and universal health care as if somehow such systems are spontaneously going to save all of humankind from some sort of dreaded mass bodily failure. Guess what? The…

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the state Energy Policy Council’s mixed reaction to recent changes in state energy law. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal challenges the claim that people have a right to health care.

Tracing back to the late 1800s, telemedicine has had far reaching effects on patient care. The invention of the telephone allowed for physicians to begin resolving patient consults at a distance, saving them from making unnecessary house visits. Fast forward one hundred and twenty years, and this method of health care treatment isn’t all…

Thomas Donlan of Barron’s focuses his latest editorial commentary on government policies that limit free-market forces in pharmaceuticals. For more than 50 years, federal and state lawmakers have been fighting “price gouging” in the prescription-drug industry. This slippery term is best defined as “prices higher than my poor,…

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on federal Right to Try legislation that would help terminally ill patients avoid red tape in pursuing potentially life-saving treatment. John Hood’s Daily Journal places the weekend’s Charlottesville violence in context of today’s noxious political climate.

North Carolina is on track to reform its Medicaid program from one that pays physicians based on the number of services they deliver to patients to one in which commercial managed care companies will pay providers a defined amount of money per month to cover their patients’ medical needs. The Department…

Yesterday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced plans to modify the state’s Medicaid Reform proposal that was submitted for federal approval last June.  Medicaid, the public health insurance program that offers medical assistance to low-income children, adults, pregnant women, elderly and disabled, covers 2 million people…

Robert King of the Washington Examiner explains that some Affordable Care Act supporters bristle at the mention of the term “bailout.” Democrats and some Republicans are fighting attempts by President Trump to label payments to insurers for lowering deductibles for poor people as “bailouts.” The pushback could play…