On Wednesday, N.C. Rep. Ben Moss, R-Moore, announced he will change his vote on Medicaid expansion, vowing to vote “no” when it returns to the House of Representatives for further consideration.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 11:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After a decade of fighting it, Republicans agree on the largest entitlement expansion in state history
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Axios is reporting that North Carolina Senate Republicans are expected to file a bill that would expand Medicaid in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday the N.C. General Assembly’s Senate leadership announced a health care proposal that includes Medicaid expansion under the federal entitlement program, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An audit released by State Auditor Beth Wood’s office Thursday, Feb. 18, found the state Department of Health and Human Services did a poor job of gatekeeping the Medicaid Provider Enrollment process.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 12:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 4:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The free lunch is here but it will cost us a lot.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 @ 11:15 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The possibility of a Republican version of Medicaid expansion has died in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 12:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For the disabled already on Medicaid, finding providers or in-home caregivers can be a nightmare.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 2:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court in 2012 made it optional for states to expand Medicaid, and several immediately signed on. A few resisted, including North Carolina, and have yet to pass an expansion bill.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2019 @ 5:07 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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If the state budget process seems polarized now, just wait.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 9:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Reports of Medicaid expansion's death in this legislative session might be greatly exaggerated.
Published: Friday, March 22nd, 2019 @ 10:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper continues pushing for Medicaid expansion. State Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, said he and three co-sponsors plan to reintroduce Carolina Cares, proposed legislation to open Medicaid rolls to more people. Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, said forget about it. It's not going to happen.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 @ 8:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Left would lead you to believe that Medicaid expansion would provide low-income North Carolinians with top-notch medical care, create tens of thousands of jobs, and magically be paid for by "someone else."
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 12:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state Department of Health and Human Services proposes to expand Medicaid and restructure the state's controversial mental health provider networks, Secretary Mandy Cohen said Tuesday
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 @ 3:48 pm
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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Of all the differences among the three budgets submitted for the upcoming two-year spending cycle, none is larger, and less likely to be negotiated, than the $4.4 billion Medicaid expansion Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is pushing
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just a few days after his midnight swearing-in, new Governor Roy Cooper tells a public audience today that he wants to bypass state law and ask the feds to expand North Carolina’s already over-crowded Medicaid program
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2017 @ 9:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Even though Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to expand North Carolina’s Medicaid program unilaterally has been halted in federal court, some GOP lawmakers say they are open to considering a limited enrollment increase
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2017 @ 5:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced his plans today to circumvent the Republican-led General Assembly, and expand North Carolina's Medicaid enrollment, possibly by executive order requesting an amendment to the state's Medicaid plan from the Obama administration
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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National Medicaid policy analysts and North Carolina legislative leaders believe Gov. Roy Cooper has taken an extremely unwise course to expand the state's Medicaid rolls
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2017 @ 12:23 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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The continuing calls to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have a seemingly unlikely ally - Medicaid Health Plans of America, the trade association representing a number of top Medicaid managed care organizations
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate on Tuesday rejected a last-minute amendment that would expand Medicaid eligibility, and with 34-10 bipartisan support passed a bill making sweeping changes to the government insurance program for the poor, elderly, and disabled.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 3:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory called on lawmakers to honor a promise to increase starting teacher salaries to $35,000 and included salary boosts for state troopers and corrections officers Thursday as he unveiled his $21.5 billion General Fund budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Replicating a cost-saving Illinois reform program could root out Medicaid fraud and abuse, but if not done properly, the state could be forced to repay the federal government for any misspent dollars, a key Senate Republican says.
Published: Sunday, March 8th, 2015 @ 1:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before North Carolina considers Medicaid expansion, it should ensure its existing rolls are not bloated with ineligible recipients, and create a verification system to prevent adding even more unqualified beneficiaries, a national health policy analyst warns.
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With a philosophical gulf still separating the state House and Senate on how best to reform the costly Medicaid program, Illinois is reporting multibillion-dollar success in a reform plan that closely resembles North Carolina Senate Republicans' framework for the future.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, yet another study claiming that expanding Medicaid in North Carolina will create tens of thousands of jobs was released and dutifully reported by the media. The findings of such studies, however, are based upon a fatally flawed assumption that Medicaid coverage equates to access to...
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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More than half of North Carolina voters and 70 percent of Republicans would be less likely to re-elect Gov. Pat McCrory if he supported the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, according to a poll released today by the Foundation for Government Accountability.
Published: Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Secretary of Health and Human Services Aldona Wos has been crisscrossing the state with an optimistic message that she is preparing to recommend Medicaid expansion for North Carolina to Gov. Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, October 19th, 2014 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though the Senate has yet to reject the House’s version of the 2014-15 general fund budget (final House passage came Friday, a day after senators left town), negotiators from both chambers will get to work this week hammering out a compromise of the $21.1 billion spending plan.
Published: Thursday, June 19th, 2014 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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