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Medicaid program that provided economic boost to rural NC communities on the chopping block
In addition to improving patient outcomes, the Healthy Opportunities Pilot data shows the program created jobs in low-income ...
Texas wants to redraw its map to give GOP more seats. Could NC do the same?
In Texas, a chaotic fight is brewing over Republicans’ plans to redraw the state’s congressional map to give the GOP the ...
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N.C. Gov. Stein signs stopgap budget bill, warns of potential Medicaid shortfall
North Carolina's so-called Medicaid "rebase" comes up more than $300 million short of what state health officials say they ...
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Trump law leaves rural Americans with little to celebrate on Medicaid anniversary | Opinion
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law by President Trump, includes significant cuts to Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office estimates these cuts will cause approximately 10 ...
Cost to reopen shuttered North Carolina hospital tops $200M
The financials of reopening the hospital are complicated by federal cuts to health care funding.
Durham County leaders receive update on local impact of federal Medicaid, SNAP cuts
More than 1.5 million North Carolinians could lose food and medical assistance when new limits on SNAP and Medicaid go into ...
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Nearly 17,000 could lose Medicaid benefits, according to analysis of Buncombe impact
Nearly 17,000 Buncombe residents would lose benefits if North Carolina rolls back its 2023 Medicaid expansion in the wake of ...
State cut to Medicaid funding could soon leave some N.C. patients without care
Cuts to Medicaid and other safety-net services could be coming soon to North Carolina because of budget cuts in a stopgap spending measure that state lawmakers passed last week. The measure, drafted ...