Tag:Medicaid expansion

• N.C. lawmakers should continue to reject Medicaid expansion 

  Medicaid expansion would inexplicably hurt the most vulnerable North Carolinians.

  by Donald Bryson
• Cooper signs COVID relief bill despite call for more spending

  Gov. Roy Cooper signed a more than $2 billion COVID relief bill on Wednesday, Feb. 10, despite his call for more spending. The General Assembly passed the bill, which includes $1.6 billion for public schools and another half-billion in rental assistance,…

  by Andrew Dunn
• Governor’s health-care panel’s recommendations unlikely to spur legislative reform in 2021

  The governor’s health-care panel recently released a set of guiding principles for medical management in the state. While legislative leadership agrees that something needs to be done to improve access to health-care coverage, Democrats and Republicans remain entrenched in their opposing positions on how to accomplish that.

  by Johnny Kampis
• Lower spending is the key to fiscal sustainability

  As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower. Well, that might not be the exact line, but the sentiment is shared across the political spectrum. Still, examples in other states and at the federal level provide frequent reminders that cutting taxes without cutting spending is…

  by Joseph Coletti
• Cooper’s plan to expand Medicaid relies on bad math, JLF report finds

  Gov. Roy Cooper’s price tag for Medicaid expansion could be off by as much as $171.3 million, a report by the John Locke Foundation says. Medicaid expansion has dominated Cooper’s fights with the Republican legislature. Cooper’s pitch comes in the form…

  by Julie Havlak
• Cooper’s post-COVID-19 plans should worry all North Carolinians 

  Gov. Roy Cooper owns this. He owns the coronavirus response and everything that will follow.   Cooper has refused to confer with the Council of State, vetoed the General Assembly’s efforts to get businesses safely opened and people back to work, relied solely on…

  by Becki Gray
• COVID-19 shutdowns swell ranks of the uninsured, and Medicaid expansion offers no immediate relief

  Brandon has three little girls, no job, and no health insurance.  His company launched mass furloughs just weeks after North Carolina shut down its economy over the coronavirus pandemic. Brandon’s job didn’t last long, and his health insurance became a casualty.  Brandon is familiar…

  by Julie Havlak
• Medicaid expansion isn’t ‘free’ to the state

  Amid the pandemic, state lawmakers and liberal advocacy groups continue a push to expand Medicaid, as allowed by the Affordable Care Act. Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Medicaid expansion is optional, state lawmakers have decided against moving…

  by Jordan Roberts
• House health panel considers temporary Medicaid expansion to cover COVID-19

  Republican lawmakers are considering temporarily expanding Medicaid to cover uninsured residents’ coronavirus testing and treatment, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said during a meeting of the House Committee on COVID-19 Health Care Working Group.  Medicaid expansion derailed last year’s budget, after Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the…

  by Julie Havlak
• Medicaid expansion block grant still the wrong policy for North Carolina

  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…

  by Jordan Roberts