• John Locke Update

    Budget-destroying health policies

    posted April 10, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    House Republicans are set to unveil their budget proposal tomorrow. Check the LockerRoom for early reactions. We’ll also have more in next week’s Update. @font-face {…
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    ObamaCare hurts teachers and state employees

    posted April 3, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    State employees and teachers have ObamaCare to thank for new health care cost sharing in a bill moving through the General Assembly. Senate Bill 265 enacts…
  • John Locke Update

    Rejecting Exchanges

    posted April 3, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    A new actuarial report requested by the Department of Insurance shows an ObamaCare exchange could cost more than $22 million a year beginning in 2014 and could be…
  • John Locke Update

    Reforming Medicaid, weighing science

    posted March 27, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    Medicaid is awful and the first anniversary of ObamaCare is a good time to talk about reforming the unaffordable entitlement. We offer our thoughts in…
  • John Locke Update

    One year of constitutional questions

    posted March 20, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
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  • John Locke Update

    Freedom or Exchange

    posted March 13, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    H2 veto override vote any day Democrats and Republicans unanimously agreed to a rule change last Thursday that would allow another vote at any time to override Gov.
  • John Locke Update

    Override?

    posted March 6, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    There’s a lot of health policy going on this week in North Carolina and nationally, so we’ll just summarize this week. Gov. Perdue owns ObamaCare with…
  • John Locke Update

    Continuing the fight for health care freedom

    posted February 27, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    Programming Note: Clark Havighurst at the Locke Foundation today explained how health insurance enshrines monopoly power. See the video here The North Carolina House completed passage of…
  • John Locke Update

    “It’s not worth the battle”

    posted February 20, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    View in your browser. Gov. Bev Perdue tried to downplay the significance of a bill to protect health care freedom in North Carolina in saying she…
  • John Locke Update

    This is not a love song

    posted February 13, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    What do you call a bill co-sponsored by 48 of 50 senators (S32) and 102 of 120 representatives (H53)? An accounting trick that makes a…

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