A promising pilot program in Florida may give North Carolina’s Medicaid program ideas on how to reform, says the Carolina Journal. Former Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature crafted a demonstration program three years ago and got approval from Washington to proceed in the Jacksonville area and several other counties. Called "Empowered Care" by Florida leaders, the program gives Medicaid recipients a set amount of money per month, adjusted by health risks, with which to enroll in private health plans. Recipients also receive counseling on how to choose among the various options to find coverage and provider networks best suited to their family’s needs. Just two years into the implementation, it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions about Florida’s Medicaid reform. But there are several indicators of progress toward the goals of the plan, including increased choice, patient satisfaction and fiscal restraint: After the reform ...
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Stricter new rules governing sex offenders took effect Monday in North Carolina. The rules triple…
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The highlight of this matchup the past couple of seasons had been counting how many dunks 7-foot-7 UNC-Asheville center Kenny George could slam without leaving the floor. With the big man sidelined during the top-ranked Tar Heels’ 116-48 blowout Sunday night, the fun part for North Carolina fans was following how many 3-pointers Danny Green could swish before he finally missed. The answer was six -- all in the second half.... more
Russell Wilson was one of the first quarterbacks to take the field this season, in N.C. State’s Thursday night opener at South Carolina, and it was an inauspicious debut :
Wilson was a very fringe starter to begin with, a two-star, redshirt "athlete" out of high school who upset returnees Daniel Evans and Harrison Beck and incoming blue-chip Mike Glennon (yes, Sean’s little brother, with much higher expectations) for the job in August, and when he had to be carted after taking ... more
Currently, there are 73 Americans serving life sentences for crimes they committed when they were 13 or 14 years old, a number far higher than in Europe, says the New York Times. The differences in the two approaches, legal experts say, are rooted in politics and culture: The European systems emphasize rehabilitation, while the American one stresses individual responsibility and punishment. Corrections professionals and criminologists here and abroad tend to agree that violent crime... more
Piracy has a harmful impact on U.S. produced copyright products and on the overall U.S. economy. In 2005, piracy conservatively cost motion pictures, sound recordings, business software and entertainment software/vide collectively at least $25.6 billion in lost revenue. Beyond the cost to the copyright industries, this lost revenue translates into lost production of legitimate copyright products, which in turn means lost wages and lost purchases of upstream products and services througho... more
WORLD BANK WEARY From: feeds.feedburner.com Post Date: 2007-10-19 06:19:54
As globalization transforms the world economy, the World Bank’s comparative advantage for lending to poor countries is gone and its role diminished, says Adam Lerrick, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. There are new competitors without the bank’s social wish list: China, Brazil, India and Russia are funding infrastructure and industry for even the poorest countries, to lock in access to raw materials and export markets. China alone will send $25 billion to ... more
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, liberal publications have devoted great space and attention to attacking the entire theory that lower tax rates can increase incentives for investment, saving and work, says Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial board. The quality of this discourse rarely rises above the level of trash talk. Nevertheless, some arguments are repeated with such regularity that they need to be addressed. One is that supply-... more
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