The Session’s Medicaid Omission
October 16th, 2015
One of the biggest stories of the 2015 General Assembly is what lawmakers didn’t do and the people they didn’t help.
They again declined to follow the lead of 30 other states and the District of Columbia and expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and provide health care coverage for as many as 500,000 low-income adults, create thousands of jobs, and help struggling rural hospitals across the state, two of which have already closed or have announced they are closing.
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A report released this summer in the middle of the troubling reform discussions by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and NC Child found that 27 percent of the people in North Carolina who would benefit from expansion are parents with children in the home.
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