Politics
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Research suggests medical debt is made worse by hospital consolidation
Research from the Urban Institute and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project found that hospital market concentration, as well as private equity’s expanding role in billing, tracking, and collecting payments for health care, is exacerbating the country’s medical debt problem.
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Opinion: Despite his silence, Donald Trump’s health care plan is bad medicine for Americans, especially women
“Donald Trump’s actions and intentions would effectively put politicians in the exam room with doctors and our patients,” Dr. Amelia Sutton, a maternal-fetal medicine physician in Charlotte, writes in an op-ed.
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Abortion bans are top of mind for young women in North Carolina as they consider Harris or Trump
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the tensions over abortion in North Carolina have only intensified, setting up the presidential election as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.
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North Carolina is finally confronting the ‘horror stories’ of its medical debt crisis
The state has among the worst rates of medical debt in the country, but new programs introduced by Roy Cooper and Vice President Kamala Harris could bring relief to millions of low- and middle-income North Carolinians.
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Trump’s former chief of staff says the former president praised Hitler and would rule like a ‘fascist’
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.
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Opinion: Be a child care voter this year
Moms know that child care is a life-shaping issue for their own families. Many are at risk of being forced onto public assistance if they can’t find the affordable care that makes it possible for them to stay in the workforce. But too many moms don’t know which candidates support the solutions they need.
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You could earn up to $400 to talk to your friends and family about the election
Relentless is actively recruiting 35,000 low-turnout voters in key swing states, including North Carolina. The goal is to pay each of these “mobilizers” up to $400 to talk to at least 60 people in their real lives so that they can ultimately reach 2.1 million voters across the participating states.
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Harris wants to give workers more rights and expand opportunities for non-college educated workers. Trump’s plans could cost jobs.
Harris has vowed to strengthen workers’ rights, expand financial support for the working class, boost opportunities for non-college graduates, and raise the minimum wage. Trump, meanwhile, has promised to implement tariffs on imports and repeal federal investments in clean energy, both of which would likely lead to job losses.
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Three Mecklenburg County women could be key to breaking the GOP supermajority in the General Assembly
Democrats are hoping to break the Republicans’ grip on the General Assembly. Beth Helfrich, Woodson Bradley, and Nicole Sidman could be the reason they succeed.
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women’s health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.
