health insurance

It’s that time of year again. Time to renew your health plan, that is. The Affordable Care Act’s 2017 health insurance enrollment period is beyond its midpoint, and…

“Physician happiness is inversely proportional to the amount of bureaucratic drag on their lives,” says Dr. Doug Farrago. Farrago, a “recovering” hospital-employed physician, was one of many speakers to address…

Since the late 1800s, telemedicine has had far reaching effects on patient care. The invention of the telephone allowed for physicians to begin resolving patient consults at a distance,…

Key Points Health insurance benefit mandates benefit few but increase costs for all Mandates cost North Carolina policyholders in the individual and small-group insurance markets over $218 million per year…

An increased use of the innovative health care delivery model called Direct Primary Care could lead to better outcomes for treatment of patients with chronic diseases, and that could mean…

It is now widely recognized that Obamacare’s insurance mandates are one of the many parts of that legislation contributing to the increasing costs of health insurance. These mandates abandon the…

Local governments across North Carolina, like other employers, are wrestling with the question of how to provide quality health care to their employees in a cost-effective manner. This is…

North Carolina’s Obamacare exchange market is in crisis mode. UnitedHealth Group and Aetna have backed out. That leaves 80 percent of North Carolinians who don’t have job-based health…

It is well known that a huge part of the cost of labor for American business is health insurance. A small firm employing as few as 15 or 20 people…

Direct primary care restores the incredible value of personalized medicine, benefiting patients, doctors, employers, and the state.