North Carolina has a Good Samaritan law to protect people who call to help someone who’s overdosed. But advocates say it’s confusing and dissuades too many from reaching out.
Rose Hoban
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Lawmakers Return to Raleigh With Health Care Policy Wish Lists
As the new legislative session begins, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expect healthy debate about Medicaid expansion, mental health care, abortion, and other issues.
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NC Advocates Ponder the Future of Abortion in Wake of Supreme Court Leak
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, it is likely the right to obtain an abortion will come down to individual states.
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More Rapid Tests Are Coming. What’s the Best Way to Use Them?
The Biden Administration has said it will distribute more rapid antigen tests and some municipalities are distributing them. Use of them requires a shift in thinking about testing.
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‘Incidental’ COVID Cases, Full ICUs, Plus Staff Shortages Stress N.C. Hospitals
N.C. hospitals put out public plea for people to get vaccinated, boosted, mask up, and take protective measures as the Omicron variant breaks hospitalization records.
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A Look Ahead at Health In North Carolina in 2022
COVID will still dominate the news cycle, bringing with it implications for major institutions in our state, plus the Medicaid transformation rolls along, and PFAS will continue to trouble North Carolina waterways.
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Study: There are More Emergency Surgeries, More ‘Catastrophic’ Bills in States Without Medicaid Expansion
A Duke University researcher compared surgeries performed in Medicaid expansion states to those in states that did not expand the program and found devastating economic circumstances for patients.
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N.C. Medicaid Switches to Managed Care, Patients and Providers Wait to See How It Will Play Out
After a five year wait, North Carolina joined most other states in transferring the Medicaid program to one managed by commercial insurers.
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Democrats, Republicans Present Competing Budget, Tax Plans at the Legislature
Republicans lead with a proposal to cut income and corporate taxes, while Democrats emphasize spending on infrastructure and health care.
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Experts Expect Demand and Enthusiasm for the COVID-19 Vaccine to Begin to Fade
Nearly 4 million people in North Carolina have been vaccinated but experts expect the demand—and enthusiasm—for getting the shots will soon reach its tipping point.