executive order

Last week, President Trump signed a new Executive Order (EO), “Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.” For the most part, this EO has some thoughtful…

Health care legislation or health care reform often consists of new regulations or new restrictions on what a patient can do or how they access care. Whenever health care reform…

North Carolina’s regulatory environment is poor, especially in comparison with other states’. Gov. Beverly Perdue signed a new executive order to modify the rulemaking process and help reduce the costs of regulation, which is a good start, but much will depend on how it is implemented in practice. For true regulatory reform, the legislature needs to build upon the executive order and apply reforms to all agencies.