• John Locke Update

    State Employee Health Benefit Premiums

    posted June 5, 2011 by Nicole Fisher
    When she vetoed the original State Employee Health Plan (SB265) North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue indicated that she opposed the increase in premiums, although her own budget proposal would…
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    Midwives and Music Therapists

    posted June 5, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    The legislature actually has a committee that deals exclusively with new licensing boards because licensing barbers and hairbraiders is not intrusive enough. Among the proposed licenses this year are ones…
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    Compromising the Future

    posted May 22, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    Health plan compromise Gov. Perdue and Republican legislators compromised the future of state employee and teacher health benefits to avoid charging insurance premiums now. The…
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    Legislators file in support of Florida

    posted May 15, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    North Carolina GOP legislators joined with their colleagues in Minnesota to file an amicus curiae brief with the…
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    Hatching a new plan for Medicaid

    posted May 15, 2011 by Nicole Fisher
    It’s not new information that Medicaid costs and requirements are crippling state and federal budgets. What is new is that federal action…
  • John Locke Update

    Cutting Medicaid, Raising Taxes

    posted May 8, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    The John Locke Foundation has published a new report from Hickory physician Dr. C.L. Gray…
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    A conflict of visions

    posted May 1, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    The King’s Speech Somehow I missed the policy implications in The King’s Speech until seeing the movie this past weekend. A newspaper of the time called Lionel…
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    It’s not about money, it’s about money

    posted April 24, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    If you want to understand what is wrong with health care policy among Progressives, Liberals, and the rest of the Left, you need go no further than…
  • John Locke Update

    State Employee Health Benefits

    posted April 24, 2011 by Nicole Fisher
    As the legislature continues debate on who should pay $11 in monthly health insurance premiums, it is worth putting North Carolina’s health plan for state employees into a…
  • John Locke Update

    Why doesn’t Gov Perdue like her own budget?

    posted April 17, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
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