Republican sponsors of the “Carolina Cares” legislation claim that the program is mischaracterized as Medicaid expansion. While Carolina Cares has some differences from the ... Keep Reading
Economics
Your Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren are Paying for Medicaid Expansion
At a presidential campaign stop in Indiana in 1968, Robert Kennedy was asked by a medical student who was going to pay for his healthcare proposal for poor people? Kennedy famously ... Keep Reading
Newspaper: Medicaid Expansion Could be Big Battle of 2019
North Carolina may be gearing up for a big battle on Medicaid expansion in 2019. While Civitas is more than ready to point out the many fallacies on entitlement expansion, and we ... Keep Reading
NC Legislators Should Reject Medicaid Expansion
North Carolina has been a leader in enacting free-market reforms that are improving people’s lives. Four tax reform packages have reduced the burden of government and simplified ... Keep Reading
State Health Plan Debate Shines Light on Medicaid Expansion
Ongoing debate around State Health Plan pricing exposes flaws in argument for Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion would perpetuate the imbalance in the healthcare system by ... Keep Reading
Is North Carolina Renting Honeywell?
There was a good deal of fanfare last week as the North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 820 - High-Pay JDIG Job Cap Modification – which was quickly followed by the ... Keep Reading
Two Charts NC Progressives Don’t Want You to See
• The state’s General Fund gets most of the attention, but doesn’t tell the whole story • Total state spending has increased nearly four-fold since 1984 – even after adjusting for ... Keep Reading
Aging Population and Growing Liabilities to Cause Fiscal Tsunami
There is a significant demographic change occurring in North Carolina that virtually no one is talking about. A change that will have major implications for the state’s fiscal ... Keep Reading
Why Should Taxpayers Forego More Important Financial Priorities to Fund Government Pork?
Tax increases force taxpayers to forego household financial priorities of increasing importance to them Meanwhile, the additional revenue funds political priorities of ... Keep Reading
The Self-Sufficiency Canard
Protectionists claim we should build everything in the U.S. This will create jobs and grow the economy, they profess But you wouldn’t cut yourself off from others, why should a ... Keep Reading
