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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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Kinsley said beneficiaries could continue to lose their coverage until Medicaid expansion can take effect.
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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 Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly has given final legislative approval to a Medicaid expansion agreement.
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The measure scheduled for debate in the House Health Committee would direct the state starting in 2024 to cover several hundred thousand people who would qualify for expansion under the 2010 federal health care law.
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The long session of the North Carolina General Assembly has begun in earnest.