And if that doesn’t happen, they believe they can make North Carolina Republicans pay a big price for it. Dan Forest, who opposes the Medicaid expansion. “Forest has spent the last two years standing in the way of the Medicaid expansion,” Jackson continued. ADThe GOP-controlled state legislature has blocked the North Carolina Medicaid expansion ever since Cooper was elected in 2016. ADIndeed, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that if North Carolina expanded Medicaid, nearly 400,000 uninsured childless adults would become eligible for coverage.

Source: Washington Post December 06, 2019 21:22 UTC