North Carolina’s budget stalemate is seriously affecting its public universities and may even cause enrollment cuts at three institutions participating in a reduced tuition program, say leaders of the University of North Carolina System. UNC’s Board of Governors is worried about…
Roy Cooper clearly thinks Medicaid expansion is such a popular idea that North Carolinians will punish Republican legislators for opposing it. Fine. He should take his case to the voters.
The possibility of a Republican version of Medicaid expansion has died in North Carolina. Republicans in the House had flirted with a version of Medicaid expansion that would extend coverage only to low-income working adults. But now that a federal appeals court has struck down work…
The Trump administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week unveiled a new model for how states could finance and design benefit plans for the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — Medicaid expansion population. The new federal guidance gives states that have expanded…
Medicaid transformation will be a casualty of the budget stalemate. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday, Nov. 19, that Medicaid transformation would be placed on hold indefinitely. That announcement came hours after Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, issued a news…
Democrats and Republicans have been debating health care reform for decades in Washington. It’s the wrong location — and which national plan to adopt is the wrong question.
They saw a helicopter hover for a moment above the hospital, and head east. They weren’t sure, but they thought their son was inside. Jean and Dale Andersen didn’t know how bad it was. An hour before, Dale had been calling his 19-year-old…
It’s just a matter of time before Matt Potter is on his own. He knows that eventually he will have to rely on staff — to lift him, to change him, to prepare his meals — but that, all too often, the staff just might…
Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina would reverberate throughout the state in disparate yet significant ways, affecting rural communities, people without jobs, as well as the uninsured and insured alike. Thought leaders gathered Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Lexington for the first in a series of discussions on…
Work requirements for Medicaid aren’t intended to be punitive and aren’t really about saving money. They promote personal responsibility and affirm the dignity of work.
