Tag: health care

Affordability and Campaign 2026

Posted on January 3, 2026 by Brant Clifton

The political left thinks the answers to all of their political prayers this year is the issue of *affordability.* Stuff is too expensive. *Affordable* is a relative term. It depends

You KNEW there HAD to be BIG CA$H circulating behind the scenes

Posted on September 4, 2025September 4, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The Foreign Doctors Act that whizzed through our bought-and-paid-for General Assembly in late-June, early-July has the state’s voters hopping mad. It clearly establishes special treatment for doctors imported from overseas

Some less-statist, less-destructive ideas about addressing an alleged rural health care crisis

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here’s some food for thought from 2022. North Carolina Republicans in state government seem to think lowering standards and turning a blind idea to immigration issues is the way to

ECUHealth seeking to bring Duke’s Child Sex Change practices to rural NC?

Posted on August 11, 2023August 11, 2023 by Brant Clifton

As legislators dither over casinos and whether to override three Cooper vetoes, this appears to be going on Down East: The debate surrounding gender-affirming care for minors in North Carolina

Medicaid Expansion: Windfall for hospitals. Higher costs for consumers. (We told you so.)

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Brant Clifton

“Conservative revolutionaries” Tim Moore and Phil Berger. their fiscally-generous lobbyist pals, and our cowardly “representatives” shoved Medicaid expansion down our throats earlier this year. We were told by those folks

When Tim Moore and Blue Cross $$$ mean MORE than US

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Well, our elected “representatives” in the North Carolina General Assembly have thumbed their collective noses at the elected state treasurer, the elected insurance commissioner, and consumers-at-large to grant a huge

“Common-sense conservative,” eh?

Posted on March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 by Brant Clifton

*That sounds familiar. * (Masthead. *COUGH* Masthead.) Two young legislators – Ben Moss and Jon Hardister – are running for state labor commissioner. THIS got posted on Twitter: Interesting. Ben

North Carolina now an “ABORTION DESTINATION”

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Brant Clifton

So sayeth The NY Times: Clinic by clinic, county by county and up to the highest levels of state government, no state embodies the nation’s post-Roe upheaval like North Carolina.

Folwell: While economy & health care falter, hospital execs feed at public trough and prosper

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The hospital industry must be giddy. Their bought-and-paid for lackeys on Jones Street have put them one step closer to a HUUUGE influx of cash. Meanwhile, a new report by

It appears Dale Folwell is onto something.

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Brant Clifton

You’ll get little argument over the point that modern healthcare is a mess. You’ll get no argument over the importance of hospitals to our society, or about how much good