North Carolina

• Nonprofit launches campaign to reach uninsured

  By Carla K. Johnson  |  June 19, 2013

  A nonprofit group helping to spread the word about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul launched a campaign Tuesday that will target states with high numbers of uninsured Americans and tackle their skepticism with straightforward messages.

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  Alternative investments enter the mainstream

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  June 5, 2013

  Alternative investments have outpaced traditional investments since the recession, but are they for everybody?

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  18 states to drop PCIP programs

  By Ann Sanner  |  May 22, 2013

  Eighteen states have decided to turn their state Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan programs over to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Feds to run high-risk plan in Ohio

  By Ann Sanner  |  May 22, 2013

  Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday.

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  Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

  By The Associated Press  |  May 20, 2013

  President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain.

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  What do we eat?

  By Mary Clare Jalonick  |  May 20, 2013

  Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

• Blue Cross warns costs higher for NC individuals

  By Associated Press  |  May 3, 2013

  North Carolina's largest health insurer says the federal health insurance overhaul law kicking in next year will mean higher costs for about a third of its customers who pay for their own coverage and lower or stable prices for about two-thirds.

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  States fear loss of health care aid

  By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR  |  May 3, 2013

  Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say.

• Health care tactic focus of bill going to McCrory

  By Associated Press  |  April 30, 2013

  Gov. Pat McCrory will soon have a bill prohibiting a health care insurance negotiating tactic that rivals of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina argue it uses to discourage competition and inflate health care costs.

• Banks slashing jobs

  By Christina Rexrode  |  April 25, 2013

  Banks aren't the big jobs machines they used to be.