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Blood Donation Across NC
January is National Blood Donor Month. While the month is intended to celebrate volunteer donors and raise awareness for the need for blood donations, it also comes during a time of need for blood banks. […]
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Opinion
North Carolina’s brewing battle over health care value
“We’ve got 9 million taxpayers and 720,000 participants in this plan who understand that they aren’t consuming health care, it’s consuming them.” — Dale Folwell, N.C. Treasurer In North Carolina, a storm is brewing that highlights […]
Opinion
Melting the whole ball of wax of health care spending
The Mercatus Center published a working paper by Charles Blahous last week on the “Medicare For All” (M4A) bill sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Every Bernie follower in the modern Socialist Democratic Party (SDP) ran […]
News
Politics bog down health care bill in Senate and FAA extension in House
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Another Republican attempt to dismantle Obamacare collapsed in the Congress on Tuesday as the party was unable to win enough party support for the Graham Cassidy bill to repeal the health care […]
News
AARP gearing up to fight latest health care bill that bill sponsors call a “must pass”
RALEIGH – The fastest growing demographic in the state and the nation is people 85 years and older. Eric Schneidewind, national president of AARP is in North Carolina this week to meet with local officials […]
Opinion
MCNABB: Restore the American Dream
The political process has been high-jacked by media and political elites, political profiteers and extremists on the left and some on the right. Hard working Americans of every race, color and creed are paying the […]
Opinion
MULLIGAN: How long can Republicans fool their constituents?
by Aimee Mulligan If you considered yourself a member of the GOP then you might identify with the title above. The Republican Party, that is to say, the Establishment has been running on the same […]
News
Heart disease risk in middle age tied to dementia later
BALTIMORE (Reuters Health) – Middle-aged people with risk factors for heart attacks and stroke may be more likely to develop dementia in old age than people with healthy cardiovascular systems, a U.S. study suggests. Like […]