Today, House and Senate Democrats filed a bill to expand Medicaid in North Carolina as provided for in Obamacare. Gov. Cooper, and many legislative Democrats have made this a top ... Keep Reading
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The Shutdown, Big Macs, and a Personality Test
Join us as we examine the outrage about President Trump's decision to serve Clemson football players fast food. The current government shutdown has now broken the record for the ... 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
Virginia Adds Half-a-Billion to Medicaid Expansion Costs
Whether or not to expand Medicaid will likely be one of the big questions North Carolina lawmakers will during the Spring legislative session. Thirty-six states have voted to ... Keep Reading
Shocking Figures on Medicaid Fraud: More Reason to Oppose Expansion
This article by Robert Doar, a former commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, should be shocking even to those familiar with the high rate of fraud in ... Keep Reading
Top Christmas movies, Gov. Cooper’s voter ID veto, and Medicaid expansion
What is your favorite Christmas movie? Numerous titles are floated as we take a deep dive into this all important topic. When it comes to voter ID, Gov. Cooper wasn't content to ... Keep Reading
N&O Op-Ed Attempts to Support Medicaid Expansion, Fails Miserably
Today the N&O published an article attempting to explain why NC should embrace Medicaid expansion, based on experiences from other states. The article fails, miserably. The ... Keep Reading
Three Economic Reasons to Ignore Saturday’s “Moral” March
There are a lot of reasons to not attend this Saturday’s HKonJ “Moral March on Raleigh.” First, there is a 90 percent chance of rain in Raleigh, on Saturday. Not an ideal ... Keep Reading
Coverage Does Not Equal Access to Care: More Evidence
One question that advocates of Medicaid expansion will never answer is: who will the newly-enrolled Medicaid patients see when they are sick? I recently wrote about the harsh ... Keep Reading
Medicaid Expansion: Cruel, Not Compassionate; Part 2
Expansion Would Cost Tens of Thousands of Jobs, Drive Up Healthcare Costs and Trap More in Poverty In Part 1 of this article, we explored several of the negative consequences ... Keep Reading
