Invest in Rural North Carolina to Ensure a Thriving State, Pandemic or Not
By the numbers, where I grew up—rural Robeson County—is one of the most impoverished areas of our state, but I…
Category: Equitable Access to Care
Focus on Philanthropy: Investing in the Affordable Care Act and Expanding Medicaid are Critical to Statewide Health
Dr. Don Berwick, a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, often calls the 2010 Patient Protection…
New Survey Finds 1 in 5 Potential Marketplace and Medicaid Enrollees Used Consumer Assistance, But Many Others Report Trying and Failing to Obtain Help
A new KFF survey finds that nearly one in five potential marketplace and Medicaid enrollees – an estimated 7 million…
Business Leaders, Conservatives Across State Warm to Medicaid Expansion
In private, and increasingly in public, some are making their support for House Bill 655, which would allow for Medicaid…
Investing in Equitable Access to Care
There’s much to be done to achieve Mrs. Reynolds’ goal of improving the quality of life and health of residents…
New Report Says 634,000 More North Carolinians Would Get Health-care Coverage Under Medicaid Expansion
According to the report, done by George Washington University researchers, if Medicaid were expanded as early as November 2019, 464,000…
Medicaid Expansion Projected to Bring Jobs to Every NC County, and Not Just in Health Care
As Gov. Roy Cooper duels with Republican legislators over the state budget and health care, a new study released Wednesday…
New Report: Expanding Medicaid Would Bring NC Massive Economic and Employment Gains
Medicaid expansion could be an important engine for economic growth and job creation across the breadth of North Carolina. More…