North Carolina continues to roll out Medicaid managed care, despite a lack of funding from the legislature and a lawsuit pending against one of the insurers slotted to become a managed care organization. Open enrollment for Medicaid managed care began statewide Thursday, Oct. 17. …
Rep. Darren Jackson, D-Wake, wants Republican leaders to take a polygraph. He says he’ll pay for it. Jackson, in a news conference Monday, Sept. 23, says a lie-detector test would prove the veracity of Republican claims about a controversial House vote overriding the governor’s budget veto.
The Republican version of Medicaid expansion will move to the House floor. NC Healthcare for Working Families passed the House Health Committee on Wednesday, Sept. 18. For more than an hour, the debate revolved around the two pillars of the GOP…
The fate of the budget veto override lies in the Senate, but don’t expect a vote any time soon. For now, redistricting is the Senate’s primary focus. Bill D’Elia, spokesman for Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said the Senate is laser-focused on finishing the…
The budget passed the N.C. House in a controversial veto override, but the debate over Medicaid expansion is far from over. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, promised a vote on Medicaid expansion after a veto override passed. He said members will debate the Republican version of…
Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, denied claims from Democrats and some media outlets that he helped carry out a plan to mislead House Democrats into not showing up to an early morning session so House Republicans could more easily pass a veto override of…
It’s a classic “he said, he said.” While a majority of the Democratic caucus was absent, Speaker of the House Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 11 called for a vote to override the governor’s budget veto. Democratic lawmakers decry the…
The N.C. House on Wednesday, Aug. 28, unanimously passed pay raises for state employees. H.B. 226 would grant state employees a raise of 2.5% for each of the next two years. H.B. 126 would increase pay for the…
North Carolina taxpayers could get a check from the state by late November. General Assembly leaders in a news conference announced a plan to return to taxpayers money from the $900-million surplus. Income-tax payments and sales tax collections ran higher than expected. Lawmakers were…
Gov. Roy Cooper issued the 33rd veto of his administration when he rejected a bill requiring N.C. sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration officials before they release inmates held in local jails. Cooper vetoed House Bill 370 Wednesday, Aug. 21, the day after it passed the House along party…
