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    Health Care Legislation and Budget Updates

    posted June 14, 2011 by Nicole Fisher
    View in your browser. Budget Update: Governor Beverly Perdue vetoes the bipartisan state budget Sunday afternoon, Governor Perdue called a…
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    Budget Fight Nearly Over

    posted June 5, 2011 by Joseph Coletti
    It is yet to be known if Gov. Perdue will veto the…
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    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…
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    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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