Medicaid expansion not dead, deViere says
DeViere disputes the mockery.
"Medicaid's not dead. Medicaid is not dead," he said.
A former staff attorney for the legislature agrees with deViere.
Medicaid expansion would bring government-paid health care to more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians, the governor's proposed state budget says. These residents fall in a gap between the bottom tier of Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies and the current top tier of Medicaid assistance.
The
DeViere on Wednesday gave the
There, say deViere's critics, is where he went wrong.
In a party-line vote, the
And technically, under the
Conservative
That's not so, deViere said on Friday.
"It is not a slip-up," deViere said. "It is a coordinated effort by
DeViere said he advanced the Medicaid expansion amendment because he and his fellow
In the end, deViere said, Medicaid expansion won't pass as a separate bill. Instead it will be added to the 2019-21 state budget as the
But what about the
It's common, Cohen told
Staff writer
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