McCrory is still not in charge
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McCrory made a big deal of his recent meeting with President Obama, after which he said Obama was open to McCrory coming up with a North Carolina-specific way to expand Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act.
Last week, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and new House Speaker Tim Moore said Medicaid expansion was not going to happen. They didn’t say they were willing to work with the governor or wanted to wait and see the details of his proposal for expansion, they said they did not want to expand Medicaid, period.
McCrory has said several times he needs quick action on business incentives to recruit industry and wants lawmakers to pass legislation in the first two weeks of the session. Legislative leaders don’t seem to be in much of a hurry at all and some of them aren’t even sure the incentive programs McCrory wants renewed should even exist.
A committee of the General Assembly is now considering taking Medicaid out of the Department of Health and Human Services and creating an politically-appointed independent board to run it. The effort comes despite vehement opposition from officials in the McCrory Administration.
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