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House and Senate leaders are considering passing two bills: one with the budget, and one that launches Medicaid expansion and casinos.
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N.C. Department of Health and Human Services will have to delay the expansion of Medicaid. Secretary Kody Kinsley says this delay comes because the General Assembly has not yet passed a budget.
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Cooper met with elected officials and physicians in Martin, Richmond and Yadkin counties to attempt to build pressure upon Republican legislation to hustle on a budget agreement. Right now, an enacted budget law is what's blocking coverage to an estimated 600,000 low-income adults.
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The General Assembly was expected to pass a state budget by July 1. Now, it could be weeks until a budget is approved and state health officials can start rolling out Medicaid expansion.
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But the expansion program won't happen then unless elected officials take one last action soon. The Democratic governor signed an expansion law in March, pontentially providing health coverage to another 600,000 adults.
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County Commissioners approved hiring 74 new staff positions in the Health and Human Services Department to process additional applications.
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The decision by North Carolina lawmakers to expand Medicaid will come with a billion dollars of new federal funds for the state. But the House and Senate disagree on how to spend the money.
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North Carolina became the 40th state in the country to expand Medicaid on Monday. Gov. Roy Cooper signed the legislation into law, and support from the state’s GOP legislature could mean other red states might follow.
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The Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly has given final legislative approval to a Medicaid expansion agreement.