Medicaid expansion on path as N.C. budget heads to votes

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Passing North Carolina’s budget will remain the last hurdle for the state to expand Medicaid to potentially cover 600,000 adults who don’t qualify or make enough for health insurance now that an effort to link it to authorizing more casinos is off the table.

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The state’s two-year budget will go to Gov. Roy Cooper after both chambers of the General Assembly vote on it Thursday and Friday
Medicaid expansion appears on course after GOP leaders said they would preserve the language in the landmark expansion measure
The budget includes Republican priorities on reducing taxes, expanding school choice and strengthening power of the legislature and the courts

Expansion appears back on a smooth…

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