City Of Greensboro Implementing Another Giveaway Of Taxpayer Dollars

Scott Yost reports that the city is going to be providing financing for development of marginal commercial properties in partnership with several commercial banks. This is yet another sell-out to development interests. The money to be loaned by the city will be amounts the private markets are not willing to […]

Juxtapose Hospital Executive Salaries Vs. Physician Circumstances

News and Record: Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, the now-retired top executive of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, received a 45.6% increase in total compensation for fiscal 2024, raising her pay to $7.63 million, according to the nonprofit’s federal tax filing… Advocate Health, parent company of Atrium Health and Baptist, provided […]

Focus On The Hospital Systems, All Of A Sudden

NC Political Tea has an article that discusses nonprofit hospital systems behaving like large for-profit corporations. This is a theme we have discussed at this blog occasionally. She links to an article at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal that suggests politicians from both parties are concerned. Indeed, they should be, […]

The Raleigh Republicans’ Assist To Corporate Employers of Physicians

The General Assembly passed a bill— HB 67– that does several things. The bill runs 48 pages. Senate candidate Don Brown recently discussed it on OAN. He focused on the part of the bill that opens the floodgates for many more foreign-trained physicians to be employed by hospital systems in […]

Major Pediatric Organization: “Medical Fascism”

Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that requests for religious exemptions to vaccines no longer be honored. Pediatricians gain financially from the administration of vaccines– sometimes handsomely. David Bell, Brownstone Institute: The AAP will almost certainly continue its path of child polypharmacy, blind adherence to protocols based on […]