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McCrory Rejects Call for Special Session to Expand Medicaid
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About 1.5 million state residents are enrolled in Medicaid. The N.C. Institute of Medicine estimated that 500,000 more would sign up in an expansion.
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McCrory plans to present a proposal next year to change Medicaid in the state. [font color="red"](THAT can't be good...)[/font]
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One of the reasons Republicans gave for not expanding Medicaid was their lack of confidence that the federal government would keep its promise to pay 100 percent of the costs for three years.
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“An expansion of Medicaid would cost North Carolina taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars through 2021,” the statement said. “How do these Democratic party front groups suggest we pay for it – how many teachers are they willing to fire? How high are they willing to raise the sales tax on groceries and medicine? How much are they willing to cut doctors’ and hospitals’ reimbursement rates? “If these liberal activists were truly serious about reducing the cost of health insurance, they would be in Washington protesting Obamacare – an abomination that has caused insurance premiums to skyrocket for working families.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/28/3320821/supporters-of-medicaid-expansion.html#storylink=cpy
About 1.5 million state residents are enrolled in Medicaid. The N.C. Institute of Medicine estimated that 500,000 more would sign up in an expansion.
....
McCrory plans to present a proposal next year to change Medicaid in the state. [font color="red"](THAT can't be good...)[/font]
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One of the reasons Republicans gave for not expanding Medicaid was their lack of confidence that the federal government would keep its promise to pay 100 percent of the costs for three years.
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“An expansion of Medicaid would cost North Carolina taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars through 2021,” the statement said. “How do these Democratic party front groups suggest we pay for it – how many teachers are they willing to fire? How high are they willing to raise the sales tax on groceries and medicine? How much are they willing to cut doctors’ and hospitals’ reimbursement rates? “If these liberal activists were truly serious about reducing the cost of health insurance, they would be in Washington protesting Obamacare – an abomination that has caused insurance premiums to skyrocket for working families.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/28/3320821/supporters-of-medicaid-expansion.html#storylink=cpy
Guess his puppet-masters didn't like what he said to the Heritage Foundation the other day. Tremendous need. Some of the worst unemployment in the country. Thousands of jobs lost because of no expansion. Fuck you McCrory, Tillis and Berger.
