Tag: Health Affairs

By Rose Hoban When Karen Smith went to Jamaica in March, she planned a working vacation. The Hoke County primary care doctor, whose practice thrives with about 3,000 patients, was in the island country to do some medical mission work when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported there. She’s a little unclear on the

By Rose Hoban By the time he reached Raleigh after six hours of driving, Dale Wiggins was angry that the lawmakers he was coming to see had already skipped town. Wiggins, the chair of the Graham County Board of Commissioners, came to Raleigh Tuesday to speak to legislators about enacting Medicaid expansion. But by the

By Rose Hoban Medicaid expansion has the potential to add thousands of health care jobs to the North Carolina landscape, expand opportunities for care to hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, and bolster the fortunes of smaller, rural hospitals. While at first, providers might be strained by the addition of these new patients to the

By Rose Hoban It seemed like this year’s Affordable Care Act open enrollment was going to be lackluster, after all, at the end of six weeks of the online marketplace being open, only 236,693 North Carolinians had signed up for health insurance coverage, less than 50 percent of last year’s total. But the last week