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N&O: States that Expanded MCD have no regrets

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Author: Mark Hall is a law professor and director of the Health Law and Policy Program at Wake Forest University. Publication Date: 04/30/2018
Source: News & Observer Op-Ed ⇥


Now that Congressional efforts to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have abated, North Carolina and the other 17 states that have not expanded Medicaid can consider whether to do so going forward. ...

... The strong balance of objective evidence indicates that actual costs to states so far from expanding Medicaid are negligible or minor, and that states across the political spectrum do not regret their decisions to expand Medicaid.

Video of Rev. Barber “Putting A Face On U.S. Healthcare Policies”

Video of Rev. Barber “Putting A Face On U.S. Healthcare Policies” cover

Author: Bill Murray Publication Date: 06/27/2017
Source: Repairers of the Breach's Gathering: ⇥
Submitted By: Bill Murray


Repairers of the Breach’s inaugural Gathering in North Carolina on June 4, 2017 features co-hosts the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove shifting the moral narrative on the U.S. healthcare debate through an hour of storytelling, music, interviews with community organizers and impacted […]

NC Justice Ctr’s Budget & Tax Ctr’s County-by-County Economic Snapshots, 2017

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Author: NC Justice Center's Brian Kennedy, Chanae Wilson, and Victoria Crouse Publication Date: 04/22/2017
Source: NC Justice Ctr's Budget & Tax Ctr website ⇥
Submitted By: Rep. Verla Insko


A one-stop spot for all your local data needs. As possible, data at the county level will be posted here on a range of issues to help you document economic conditions in your community.

How do people fare where you live? New economic snapshots for all 100 counties

Availability Of Jobs

Poverty And Economic Hardship

Ability To Afford The Basics

Access To Affordable Housing

Healthy Lives And Communities

Educational Attainment

Work And Income Supports To Avoid Poverty

Missed Opportunities: The Consequences Of State Decisions Not To Expand Medicaid

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Author: President's Council of Economic Advisers Publication Date: 06/01/2015
Source: 44-page long resource ⇥
Submitted By: Jonathan Kotch


Executive Summary
The Affordable Care Act has dramatically expanded access to high-quality, affordable health insurance coverage. Since the law’s major coverage provisions took effect at the start of 2014, the Nation has seen the sharpest reduction in the uninsured rate since the decade following the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965...

Direct Benefits of Expanded Insurance Coverage for the Newly Insured

  • Improved Access to Care
  • Better Health and Longer Lives
  • Greater Financial Security
  • Higher Standard of Living
  • Greater Macroeconomic Resilience
  • Healthier, More Productive Workers
  • NC Institute of Medicine’s Financial Analysis on Medicaid Expansion, before ANY Legislative Action

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    Author: Adam Zolotor, MD DrPH, VP NC-IOM Publication Date: 01/27/2013
    Source: Presented first to HCfANC Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill ⇥
    Submitted By: Gary Greenberg


    This was the detailed study performed by the NC Institute of Medicine for use by the NC General Assembly’s deliberation on accepting the Federal Affordable Care Act’s offer of expanding to new recipients: poor adults without any of: young children pregnancy full and permanent disability senior citizen status Ideas it contains include the cost of caring […]

    KFF: The ACA and Medicaid Expansion Waivers

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    Author: Robin Rudowitz, Samantha Artiga, and MaryBeth Musumeci Publication Date: 02/17/2015
    Source: Kaiser Family Foundation ⇥


    A tabular and narrative report about the states which negotiated alternative forms of ACA-Approved Medicaid Expansion. Generally these are states with Republican Governors, imposing a variable combination of co-pays, incentives, screens, supplemental premiums. Each program is enacted as a pilot, required to report the effect of these modifications to Federal Health & Human Services following a trial period. […]

    Kaiser Health News

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    Author: Kaiser Health News Publication Date: 01/01/2015
    Source: Ongoing web-resource ⇥
    Submitted By: Jim Hillegas


    Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news service committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. Special internal pages include stories about Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. KHN is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Menlo Park, Calif., that is dedicated to filling […]

    North Carolina Health News

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    Author: Rose Hoban, editor Publication Date: 01/01/2015
    Source: Online only ⇥


    A terrific non-profit resource that provides primary reporting and new facts to politic and policy events in NC. It was created and is edited by previous WUNC-FM’s health reporter Rose Hoban. She entered journalism circuitously: After a decade of practicing nursing, she enrolled at UC Berkeley’s journalism school. While at Berkeley, she also earned a […]

    The Human and Professional Costs of Medical Care in the United States

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    Author: Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein Publication Date: 06/01/2014
    Source: International Journal of Health Services, Volume 44, Number 4, Pages 635–642, 2014 ⇥
    Submitted By: Jonathan Kotch


    Administrative Work Consumes One-Sixth Of U.S. Physicians’ Working Hours And Lowers Their Career Satisfaction   Doctors often complain about the burden of administrative work, but few studies have quantified how much time clinicians devote to administrative tasks. We quantified the time U.S. physicians spent on administrative tasks, and its relationship to their career satisfaction, based on a […]

    Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013

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    Author: Jessica C. Smith, Carla Medalia Publication Date: 09/16/2014
    Source: US Census: Report Number: P60-250 ⇥
    Submitted By: Jonathan Kotch


    Introduction This report presents data on health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2014 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Source and Accuracy [PDF 374kb] Highlights In 2013, the percentage of people without health insurance coverage for the entire […]

    Financial Burden of Medical Care: A Family Perspective

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    Author: National Center for Health Statistics, CDC Publication Date: 01/01/2014
    Source: NCHS Data Brief Number 142, January 2014 ⇥
    Submitted By: Jonathan Kotch


    Key findings Data from the National Health Interview Survey, 2012 In 2012, more than one in four families experienced financial burdens of medical care. Families with incomes at or below 250% of the federal poverty level (FPL) were more likely to experience financial burdens of medical care than families with incomes above 250% of the […]

    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally

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    Author: Commonwealth Fund Publication Date: 06/01/2014
    Source: Commonwealth Fund Website ⇥
    Submitted By: Jonathan Kotch


    Executive Summary The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United […]

    Missed Opportunities, the Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid

    Missed Opportunities, the Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid cover

    Author: White House Council of Economic Advisors Publication Date: 07/02/2015
    Source: White House Website ⇥
    Submitted By: Jonathan Kotch


    Today, the Council of Economic Advisers released a report, Missed Opportunities: The Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid, which details the effects of state decisions regarding Medicaid expansion on access to care, financial security, overall health and well-being of residents, and state economies. The Affordable Care Act has expanded high‐quality, affordable health insurance […]

    freeforall (a blog)

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    Author: Don Taylor, Associate Professor of Public Policy of Duke University Publication Date: 12/12/2013
    Source: How North Carolina could (sorta) have universal coverage by 2016 ⇥


    Could North Carolina became the first State to achieve universal health insurance coverage? A student asked me recently what it would take financially to do so, and how it could most simply and quickly be done. Here is a quick estimate. Using the Kaiser Family Foundation’s numbers, in 2016 there will be 1,216,000 uninsured persons […]

    Social Responsibility of Physicians

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    Author: Bernard Lown, MD Publication Date: 04/29/2012
    Source: Dr. Lown's blog ⇥
    Submitted By: Mohan Chilukuri, MD


    Introduction Ever since starting clinical practice 62 years ago I have looked forward to this conference. Mercifully, good fortune and good genes enable me to attend.  From my earliest days in medicine I have struggled against the prevailing model of healthcare. My opposition in part was provoked by the growing prevalence of overtreatment. Resort to […]

    What is Single Payer?

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    Author: Physicians for National Health Program Publication Date: 01/01/2015
    Source: PNHP website ⇥


    Single-payer national health insurance, also known as “Medicare for all,” is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health care financing, but the delivery of care remains largely in private hands. Under a single-payer system, all residents of the U.S. would be covered for all medically necessary services, including doctor, hospital, […]

    Daily analysis on health care

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    Author: Don McCanne MD Publication Date: 01/11/2015
    Source: Subscription by email ⇥
    Submitted By: Claudia C Prose MD


    This is an email subscription service from PNHP that delivers commentary from an expert and articulate physician on developments in the progress toward health care reform and single payer.


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