News Observer

By: Paula Specht

Democrats in North Carolina argue the state should expand Medicaid to help residents pay for health care.

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“In Indiana’s case their waiver contained elements like some increased cost sharing and health savings accounts — other states that have expanded Medicaid have used some of these ideas too,” said Adam Searing, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s school of public policy.

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“While Indiana’s expansion doesn’t look exactly like say California’s or New York’s where they just expanded coverage under their existing Medicaid program to the new group of adults, it does look a lot like Arkansas or Kentucky or Arizona or Montana which all used such waivers when they expanded Medicaid,” Searing wrote in an email.

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