Piedmont RisingDec 4, 20192 minStatement: White House Council Misleads Americans in Advance of House Consideration of Prescription Yesterday, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a statement claiming that H.R.3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, cou...
Piedmont RisingNov 15, 20192 minPiedmont Rising Launches New Effort to Improve Health Care PolicyRALEIGH, N.C. November 15, 2019 – A new statewide grassroots organization dedicated to the fight for affordable health care launched on T...
Piedmont RisingNov 14, 20191 minNorth Carolina Advocates Come Together to Launch Piedmont Rising New group will share North Carolinians’ health care stories, address access to affordable health care RALEIGH, N.C. — November 14, 2019 —...
Piedmont RisingOct 23, 20193 minN.C. Health News: Number of uninsured children in North Carolina rises for a second yearBetween 2016 and 2018, the total number of uninsured children in North Carolina rose from 115,000 to 130,000, a recent Georgetown Univers...
Piedmont RisingOct 23, 20193 minN&O: N.C. taxpayers have paid $8.3 billion to expand Medicaid elsewhereKu said expanding Medicaid in 2019 would help 634,000 North Carolinians get Medicaid coverage by 2022. In the years from 2020 to 2022, ex...
Piedmont RisingOct 23, 20194 minN.C. Health News: N.C.'s uninsured gap 9th highest in the nationMore than 1 million North Carolinians — or 10.7 percent — did not have health insurance in all of 2018, and the same number as for the ye...