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America’s healthcare infrastructure desperately needs reform – both the Left and the Right can agree with this basic premise. However, their acquiescence tends to end there.  Last ... Keep Reading

Imagine this: you’ve just had your credit card stolen. What do you do? Naturally, you would inform the credit card company so that the thief cannot max out your credit line. Most ... Keep Reading

Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or Obamacare) without first reading it. As Nancy Pelosi noted at the time, “we have to pass the bill so that ... Keep Reading

Earlier this week House and Senate Democrats began a state wide budget tour to criticize the Republican-authored state budget and job losses in state government and the public ... Keep Reading

North Carolina’s healthcare system could be considerably more effective at controlling costs, increasing rural access and delivering quality services. That much Republicans and ... Keep Reading

The political battles carried out between government workers and budget hawks in state capitols across the country have made national headlines for months.  From the massive public ... Keep Reading

One intended purpose of Certificate of Need (CON) laws is to increase medical care accessibility to people by encouraging the expansion of medical facilities into rural areas and ... Keep Reading

Remember this figure: 18,000 plus.  That figure, according to Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue and House minority leader Joe Hackney  ( D-Orange ), – is the number of public school jobs ... Keep Reading

A hospital applying for authorization to use their own funds for hospital projects will, on average, pay a minimum of $32,000 per Certificate of Need (CON) application. The CON ... Keep Reading

“The fundamental premise of the CON law is that increasing health care costs may be controlled by governmental restrictions on the unnecessary duplication of medical ... Keep Reading