While North Carolina has refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, our state is enrolling uninsured people at a rate at least twice that of any other state that has refused to set up its own health exchange and refused to expand Medicaid. In short, among states that are dragging their feet on the Affordable Care Act – [...]
Originally published in the Raleigh News & Observer While North Carolina has refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and many politicians continue to complain about the federal health exchange, the roll-out of Obamacare in N.C. tells a far more positive story. North Carolina is enrolling uninsured people at a rate at least twice that of any other [...]
From Adam Searing, Progressive Pulse blog, NC Department of Justice NC Medicaid “broken” was the first statement from State Auditor Beth Wood in a front-page, prominently-headlined News and Observer article after a Medicaid audit was presented at a joint news conference held by Wood and Governor Pat McCrory: “Administrative spending is 38 percent higher compared to the average of nine [...]
Doug Dickerson is State Director of AARP North Carolina. He joined AARP after a decorated 21-year career in the military and holds an MBA from Duke University and a Masters Degree in international affairs from Boston University. Attention shoppers: If you are in the market for an affordable health insurance plan because you are uninsured or had to buy your [...]
SHIIP Winners: (l-r) Ed Regan, Dyana Morgan, SHIIP Deputy Commissioner Van Braxton, Joe Buckner and Jeannie Schepisi accepting award on behalf of Carmen Long Four statewide awards from SHIIP, the Department of Insurance’s Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program, were presented April 18 during the North Carolina Association on Aging conference in Raleigh by SHIIP Deputy Commissioner Van Braxton. • SHIIP [...]
By Allen Johnson, Editorial Page Editor, in the News-Record Still thoroughly confounded about the state of health care reform in the United States? A good place to start for common-sense answers is T.R. Reid’s brisk and engaging best-seller, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care. First published in 2009, this book essentially is [...]
Remember when your children were little, and they came down with the flu? You lovingly nursed them back to health. You cared for them through colds, the measles, and chicken pox. You kissed their boo-boos and bandaged scraped knees. After all, that’s what parents do. Today your children are grown, probably married with families of their own. They may have [...]
By Sam Matthews, Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem The Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program or SHIIP is a consumer information division of the North Carolina Department of Insurance that helps Medicare beneficiaries with Medicare, Medicare supplements, Medicare Advantage, Medicare fraud and abuse, and long-term care insurance questions. The program was founded in 1986 in direct response to the growing concerns [...]
Have you ever thought about what would happen if you, or a member of your family, were no longer able to live independently? What if your elderly parents were no longer able to drive or perform basic activities of daily living, such as bathing or toileting? Would you or another family member be able to provide the care they might [...]
Wayne Goodwin is North Carolina Insurance Commissioner The details, options and deadlines surrounding Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans still confuse many people. Some Medicare beneficiaries may have kept their PDP simply so you wouldn’t have to worry about the six-week annual election period. However, they may have now discovered that some of the drugs that were covered last year [...]
