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BBB changed rules to get them off; Democrats want them back
Published: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Steed
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A House Bill that provides funding for the Medicaid rebase in North Carolina is headed to the Senate floor for a vote, after passing in the Senate’s Appropriations/Base Budget Committee on Monday.
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2025 @ 3:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“It could ultimately have an impact on not only its operating budgets from a year-to-year basis but also have an impact on our gigantic unfunded healthcare liability,” Folwell said.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 8:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislators take paid vacation with no one to blame for budget impasse but themselves; Enactment of Medicaid Expansion and teacher raises hang in balance
Published: Thursday, September 14th, 2023 @ 5:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on the importance of separating Medicaid Expansion from the state budget:
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2023 @ 1:02 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On Monday, North Carolina Senate leaders unveiled their proposed state budget. Governor Cooper will be under pressure to sign the final version because Medicaid expansion, a bill he signed earlier this year, is tied to passing a budget.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, North Carolina House leaders unveiled their proposed state budget. Governor Cooper will be under pressure to sign the final version because Medicaid expansion, a bill he signed last week, is tied to passing a budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 1:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday afternoon Governor Roy Cooper released his recommended budget adjustments for the upcoming fiscal year that begins on July 1.
Published: Friday, May 20th, 2022 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New study shows state budgets getting slammed by Medicaid costs
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Steed
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From Medicaid changes to increased resources for behavioral health, to higher monetary thresholds for requiring Certificate of Need, the budget bill touches on key healthcare policy issues.
Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 @ 3:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The New York Post reports this week that the state of New York is facing a massive budget hole of roughly $6 billion.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 9:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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An overhaul of North Carolina’s Medicaid system, approved years ago and weeks into enrollment, is being postponed indefinitely because funding for it was vetoed by Gov. Cooper.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 6:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It’s been five years in the making, and it’s almost free from the budget stalemate.
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2019 @ 4:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper insists Medicaid expansion be included in the General Fund budget, and the Republican-dominated General Assembly unequivocally refuses.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 8:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper insists that Medicaid expansion be part of North Carolina’s budget deal for 2019-20. Republican leaders of the legislature disagree.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While the fighting over Medicaid and the state budget persists, Republicans’s effort to save rural hospitals with a state-funded loan program will move forward.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It has been 25 days since Governor Cooper vetoed the bipartisan $24 billion state budget because it does not include his demands for expanding government-run Medicaid in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 3:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Medicaid program is for those in the shadows, the most unfortunate and needy of our citizens. As discussions of expanding our state’s Medicaid program continue — and hold up the new budget — it’s worth asking: Is our current Medicaid program adequately serving those in the shadows?
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper says he won’t sign a new state budget unless the North Carolina General Assembly says yes to Medicaid expansion. The Republican-majority legislature has said no to Medicaid expansion. So far, now weeks into the new fiscal year, neither side has budged.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the biennial budget bill, saying North Carolina residents are dying because Republicans won’t expand Medicaid rolls.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 1:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a news release issued Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper’s spokesman made it clear: Medicaid expansion must be part of any General Fund budget he signs.
Published: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $25.2 billion General Fund budget for 2019-20 that would increase spending by more than $1.3 billion over the current fiscal year
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2019 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medicare and Social Security, along with Medicaid, represent a majority of the federal budget each year, and represent mandatory spending
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 6:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The once-floundering state Medicaid system stay within its budget for the fourth consecutive year
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2017 @ 1:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced Monday that he plans to expand the state's Medicaid rolls in several limited areas as part of his Health and Human Services budget priorities, and will continue to seek broader expansion from the White House.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After more than three years of debate and several false starts the legislature passed and Governor McCrory signed into law a Medicaid Reform law in 2015.
Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 12:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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After several major revisions, Medicaid reform that had delayed budget approvals during recent years passed the General Assembly on Tuesday. Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday signed the measure.
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With budget negotiations still underway and a third Continuing Resolution that extends funding for essential services until September 18th, it is vital to keep focus on the importance of what the House conferees are advocating for in Raleigh.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers still cannot agree to a final budget. The Senate saw difficulty in compromise, so they decided to move their economic development and Medicaid reform plans out of the budget and into stand-alone bills. Unfortunately, even with this change, the two chambers were unable to...
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 7:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leader Phil Berger announced Wednesday that the chamber's leadership had pulled two major policy provisions from its proposed budget to spur stalled negotiations on the state spending plan.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2015 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Department of Health and Human Services reported today that the North Carolina Medicaid program ended the 2014-15 state fiscal year with $130.7 million cash on hand. This is the second consecutive year the Medicaid program has finished with cash on hand.
Published: Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 @ 9:42 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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There are "widespread differences" that are "not what you would call easy" to resolve between House and Senate health care budgets, is state Rep. William Brisson's assessment of budget deliberations in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just when we were beginning to trust that North Carolina's Medicaid program was better managed and actually spending within its allocated budget we learned the program hasn't been paying doctors and hospitals what they are owed.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:29 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Senate leaders' $21.63 billion General Fund budget proposal includes major policy initiatives related to Medicaid, removing responsibility for Medicaid from the state Department of Health and Human Services while creating a Cabinet-level Health Benefits Authority to administer the $14 billion govern
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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All kinds of deals are made during the legislative session. Whether a distillery can sell unlimited amounts or only one bottle to people taking tours; whether vehicle registration fees should increase 50 percent or 30 percent or at all; whether solar subsidies should be cut off now or extended...
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2015 @ 2:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Countering arguments that Medicaid expansion would benefit North Carolina's economy, a new report from the national group State Budget Solutions estimates that expansion actually would lead to a $6.4 billion hit in future personal income growth.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today marks the opening day for the 2015 "long session" for the North Carolina General Assembly. Legislators will confront many pressing issues, foremost among them will be crafting the FY 2015-17 biennial budget.
Published: Thursday, January 15th, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For those of us who follow state government, the budget is always a topic of conversation. Where will money be spent? How much will be spent on various agencies? Will there be a surplus or deficit? The list goes on and on, but one question that doesn't come up very often is: How is the budget...
Published: Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 8:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Teacher pay. Medicaid. These are perhaps the two most contentious spending items in this year’s state budget. But continuing to fly under the radar is taxpayer-funded television programming.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Legislators have raised teacher pay, set aside money for potential Medicaid cost overruns, and made a major positive change in the state budget process.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 4:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We don't know what the composition of the North Carolina General Assembly will look like after the November election. Republicans are favored to hold their majorities in both legislative chambers, to be sure, but their edge could shrink a lot, shrink a little, or stay roughly the same (a net increas
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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