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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live fireside chat and tele-town hall Wednesday, Jan. 10, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss Medicaid expansion, including impacts on rural communities, who is newly eligible and ways to apply for health care coverage.
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 @ 10:01 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live Cafecito and tele-town hall on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss Medicaid expansion, who is newly eligible, ways to apply and which qualified immigration statuses are eligible for health care coverage
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 11:19 am
By: ENC NOW
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Since June 1, at least 18,000 people have lost health care coverage who likely would have been able to keep it under Medicaid Expansion
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 11:23 am
By: Governor's Office
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Medicaid postpartum health care coverage will be extended from 60 days to 12 months for eligible people in North Carolina beginning April 1, 2022.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina lags in rankings for health care and inclusion, highlighting the need to close the coverage gap
Published: Saturday, July 31st, 2021 @ 9:51 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Council on Health Care Coverage held its last meeting today to finalize principles to help guide Governor Roy Cooper and legislative leaders as they consider options to increase affordable and comprehensive health coverage for North Carolinians.
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2021 @ 4:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper will join members of The North Carolina Council on Health Care Coverage for its third meeting today as the Council discusses options and guiding principles to expand access to health care coverage for North Carolinians.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 10:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Council’s first meeting will be held today at 10 am; livestream link available
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 11:20 am
By: Governor's Office
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While the health care debate has usually focused on questions of insurance coverage and finance, the composition and delivery of medical services have been changing significantly.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 @ 10:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For people looking to sink talk of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, Ohio is the go-to state to paint as a Medicaid debacle.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina doesn’t just have a health care gap. Large fissures riddle the system.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper met with people from across the Piedmont and western regions of the state to hear firsthand the choices that they are forced to make because they cannot access affordable, quality health insurance.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:38 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders today offered Republican leadership a state budget compromise proposal that would close the health care coverage gap, raise teacher pay, cut taxes for people and guarantee school construction while balancing the budget and saving money in the Rainy Day Fund
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Remarks by President Trump on Expanding Health Coverage Options for Small Businesses and Workers
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 10:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a roundtable discussion with Governor Cooper and Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, business leaders made the economic case for closing the health care coverage gap in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 3:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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President Donald J. Trump is expanding Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs), opening new coverage options for American workers.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a round table discussion with Governor Roy Cooper and Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, early childhood professionals from across North Carolina shared stories of how the health care coverage gap is negatively affecting their colleagues.
Published: Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Obstetricians and pediatricians from across North Carolina shared with Governor Roy Cooper and Secretary Mandy Cohen of the Department of Health and Human Services the urgency to close the health care coverage gap in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 5:56 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Medicaid Momentum: Pitt County Commissioners Push for Medicaid Expansion as List of Supporters GrowsDozens of health care and business leaders support expansion and urge the legislature to close coverage gap.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 11:35 am
By: Governor's Office
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It was Nixon who went to China. And now the forces for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina have their own unlikely champion.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 7:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A group of 15 business leaders have signed an op-ed running in papers around the state calling for a bipartisan solution to close the health care coverage gap.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:49 am
By: Governor's Office
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Chief executives from seven rural hospitals shared with Governor Roy Cooper and Secretary Mandy Cohen of the Department of Health and Human Services their support for North Carolina to act now to close the health care coverage gap.
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: Governor's Office
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More than 500,000 North Carolinians can’t see a doctor when they need one because affordable healthcare is out of reach. Many of these people are in the coverage gap – they make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, yet too little to afford costly private insurance.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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As the debate over Medicaid expansion continues, it is vital to have an understanding of the real impact of closing North Carolina’s health coverage gap and to dispel false allegations and misinformation.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, the CEO of Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital presented Governor Roy Cooper with a resolution “urging the North Carolina General Assembly to expand Medicaid in North Carolina as soon as possible.”
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 10:38 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Senate Republicans believe in patient-centered health care that delivers the choices they want, the affordability and protections they need, and the quality they deserve. That is why Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues today introduced the Protect Act
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Top-ranking senators have introduced an omnibus health-care bill that would add severely disabled people to the Medicaid rolls and abolish restrictive certificate of need laws.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate has overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 86, which could make high-quality, affordable health care insurance available to tens of thousands of North Carolina residents lacking coverage.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2019 @ 11:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate has overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 86, which could make high-quality, affordable health care insurance available to tens of thousands of North Carolina residents lacking coverage.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 10:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan provides health care coverage to more than 720,000 teachers, state employees, retirees, and their dependents.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's nearly impossible to discuss the cost, access, or quality of the U.S. health care system without circling back to Medicaid - the joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to those with low incomes
Published: Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) authored and introduced the Ensuring Coverage for Patients with Pre-Existing Conditions Act, legislation that would guarantee Americans have equal health care coverage, regardless of their health status or pre-existing conditions
Published: Saturday, August 25th, 2018 @ 12:50 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The power to grant a right to health care is the right to deny it
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What some hyperpartisans now call "fake news" is in many instances neither fake nor news.
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"More than 1.3 million North Carolinians stand to lose health care coverage by 2026 under the proposed Senate health care bill"
Published: Thursday, June 29th, 2017 @ 12:31 am
By: Governor's Office
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I agree with the legislative intent to expand healthcare coverage to the 40 million uninsured Americans and preclude discrimination against Americans with preexisting conditions who are seeking coverage within the individual market.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 8:31 am
By: David Pring-Mill
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