Archives: Jordan Roberts

During the 2016 campaign cycle, many candidates, including Donald Trump, promised voters that they would work to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with a system that…

The current state of the individual markets The authority of the states to regulate their own insurance markets was severely curtailed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the individual…

It’s nearly impossible to discuss the cost, access, or quality of the U.S. health care system without circling back to Medicaid – the joint federal and state program that provides health…

On March 3rd, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare was signed into law with the promise of slowing the rising costs of health care. The law added to…

The United States health care system is a unique, complex web of consumers, providers, and payers. And it is expensive. Health care spending in the United States has increased…

Is it legal for the state to block a private citizen’s entry into a market? A lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s Certificate of Need laws (CON) is attempting to…

Updated as of January 2020. The excessive amount of health care regulation that deteriorates the physician-patient relationship is pushing some doctors to opt out of insurance contracts so they can…

Updated as of January 2020. Medicaid is a program funded jointly by the state and federal government. Its core functions include paying medical providers for services rendered to low-income parents,…

Updated as of January 2020. For patients living in rural North Carolina, quality health care can be hard to find. Over 1.9 million people, 19 percent of the state’s population,…

Updated as of January 2020. Telemedicine is a leading innovation that has proven to expedite the delivery of health care. Telemedicine is the use of technology to deliver health care,…