North Carolina Medicaid could lose as much as $27 billion in federal funding, the state program's head said Wednesday, if Congress passes a budget proposal that brings cuts to the government ...

North Carolina officials estimate that Medicaid expansion, which Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law late last month, will cover more than 600,000 people.

Medicaid coverage in North Carolina will expand to another 600,000 low-income residents starting Dec. 1, in a move that may be considered Cooper's biggest policy win as governor.

On Dec. 1, 2023, when the gates opened for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, people of all kinds were standing outside, waiting to enter a long-awaited future. They were people in the coverage ...