As a result of the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare recipients now pay no more than $35 a month for insulin. Carrol Olinger was panicking. It was 2022, and the retired Fayetteville teacher — disabled and between jobs —...
The Biden-Harris administration provides North Carolina nursing schools with much-needed funding, boosting the nursing workforce. North Carolina faces a nursing shortage, with a predicted deficit of about 17,000 nurses by 2033. But there’s good news. Thanks to...
AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and GlaxoSmithKline all agreed to cap the price of asthma inhalers earlier this year following an investigation by a Democratic-led Senate Committee.
With North Carolina’s absence of state protections for pregnancy, people like Rose Stanley now have (new) federal laws to balance her college education, job, and parenthood. Read how these regulations are helping not just her—and where there’s room for growth.
An over-the-counter birth control option will now be available for free in North Carolina for anyone who has health insurance through Medicaid, Gov. Roy Cooper announced this week.
It’s going to be the community here in Northampton who will make it happen. We need to advocate for more: more clinics and more providers to deliver the healthcare that Medicaid covers. When new businesses set up shop, we should ask them to invest in the community’s health, knowing that they will benefit when all of us have access to the care we need.
More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in the state's Medicaid expansion program since it went live about seven months ago, officials announced Friday.
With limited coverage for adult dental care and lofty out-of-pocket costs, some patients are turning to dental credit cards—but experts say these cards are “predatory.”
Roughly 15 million Americans have medical debt on their credit reports. The new rule means that debt will no longer be able to depress their credit scores and make it more difficult for them to get a job, rent an apartment, or secure a mortgage or car loan.
At Cardinal & Pine's first live event, North Carolina veterans, families, and lawmakers warned that proposed cuts to VA care—and attacks on democracy—threaten those who’ve already sacrificed the most.
In a panel discussion, veterans, doctors, nurses, and advocates will tell their stories, and call attention to the fatal consequences significant cuts would mean for veterans and military families.
Right now, I’m terrified, because I hear Republican leaders talk about cutting Medicaid, which is the only reason I can take my grandkids to the doctor.
We’ve long known that there is a childcare crisis in the United States, with rising costs to parents and low pay for childcare workers. Forty percent of those who work in childcare make so little they qualify for some form of public assistance, like food subsidies, according to EdNC.
Today, nearly 19,000 North Carolinians are on the waitlist for the Innovations Waiver, a Medicaid program in NC that helps fund care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The average wait time is 12 to 15 years.
Because the Senate Republican majority is very slim, it will take only four Republican senators to block the Medicaid cuts. Several conservative Republican senators already have expressed serious concerns with cutting Medicaid, since millions of working-class Trump voters would lose their health coverage.