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In Its Second Year, How Effective Is The Affordable Care Act In North Carolina?

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Will Michaels
Published June 9, 2015 at 12:09 PM EDT
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The Affordable Care Actis still attracting big enrollment numbers in North Carolina.

Nearly 500,000 people in the state have coverage, but premiums could riseby as much as 40 percent next year for some health plans.

   

And the Obama administration says more than 300,000 people still are not covered because the state did not expand Medicaid. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Jason deBruyn, reporter for Triangle Business Journal, about the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act in North Carolina in its second year on the market. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Will Michaels
Will Michaels is WUNC's Weekend Host and Reporter.
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