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By Yen Duong Two documents from the past month reflect the state of racial disparities in access to health care in North Carolina. A new report from the Commonwealth Fund, a health care policy nonprofit, showed that racial disparities in access to health care across the country have shrunk since the Affordable Care Act was

By Anne Blythe As North Carolina lawmakers focused on health care policy on the home-front for much of Tuesday, Josh Stein, the state attorney general, honed in on what’s happening on the national stage. Oral arguments began earlier that day in a federal courtroom in New Orleans over a Texas-based lawsuit that could ultimately bring

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

By Rose Hoban As he drove from one town to the next late last week, Mark Van Arnam was dismayed to hear the news that a judge sitting on a district circuit court in Texas ruled that the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional. Van Arnam leads the North Carolina Navigator Consortium, a group dedicated