Harvard/CUNY study estimates death toll from rejecting Medicaid expansion
A new study out of Harvard Medical School and City University College of New York calculates the likely health impacts of states’ decisions to opt out of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care...
View ArticleNews roundup: DHHS submits Medicaid overhaul plan
DHHS officials submitted their Medicaid reform proposal to the General Assembly for consideration on Monday. The legislature is expected to take up the plan when it reconvenes in mid-May. Here’s the...
View ArticleDHHS faces cuts to program for disabled babies, toddlers after plan to absorb...
Sarah Ovaska at NC Policy Watch reports that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to absorb $10 million of budget cuts to a program that helps developmentally disabled babies and...
View ArticleMcCrory to sign bill legalizing marijuana oil treatment for epilepsy
Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday evening that he plans to sign a bill to legalize the use of a cannabis oil extract for the treatment of debilitating seizure disorders, particularly those that affect...
View ArticleBelhaven mayor marches to DC to save Vidant Pungo Hospital
The Republican mayor of Belhaven, NC began an almost 300-mile march to Washington, D.C., Monday to advocate for Medicaid expansion and call on national leaders to intervene in the closing of Vidant...
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Senate unveils new Medicaid reform plan
Senate Republicans released a new Medicaid reform proposal Wednesday that moves closer to the House budget, but still differs from the House plan in a number of significant ways. The plan backed by the...
View ArticleReproductive rights advocates to deliver broken cookies to Governor’s Mansion...
Pro-choice activists plan to deliver broken cookies to the Governor’s Mansion Thursday morning at 11 a.m. to mark the one-year anniversary of Governor Pat McCrory breaking his 2012 campaign promise not...
View ArticleNAACP holds press conference about Vidant Pungo Hospital
The NC NAACP and the community of Belhaven are holding a press conference Wednesday at 4 p.m. outside the Vidant Corporation Headquarters in Greenville to discuss the latest news from the campaign to...
View ArticleGOP anti-Obamacare ad spending plummets in NC Senate race
Bloomberg News reports today that the number of Republican ads targeting Obamacare in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race has dropped by nearly 50% since April — a shift also evident in other competitive...
View ArticleN&O: Legislature neglects the health of rural NC
Despite an extended ‘short’ legislative session, state lawmakers left a number of issues unfinished this year. But one critical topic never even made it onto the agenda — the health crisis in rural...
View ArticleDHHS releases proposed new abortion clinic regulations
State health officials on Monday released proposed new regulations for abortion providers, as required by a motorcycle safety/abortion omnibus bill passed by the state legislature under controversial...
View ArticleTime to give the power back to doctors and hospitals
According to a new article in the Charlotte Observer, North Carolina ranks fourth most restrictive amongst 36 states that require Certificates of Need. CON laws require “medical providers to obtain the...
View Article‘Don’t abandon at-risk mothers and children’ says new editorial
The CCNC, otherwise known as the Community Care of North Carolina program, has been helping at-risk mothers and their children for years now. They help women navigate the complicated health care...
View ArticleN&O: Republicans ‘slashing and burning’ mental health funding
It seems they’re at it again. A new editorial by the News and Observer, argues that the Senate’s defunding of mental health centers is just a “part of a disturbing pattern designed by Republican...
View Article“I’m still in pain,” says NC veteran
They fought for our country but they aren’t getting proper dental care. An article by WNCN higlights one veteran’s experience with the NC dental system and the often long, drawn out process of waiting...
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