Source: Patrick McHugh and Suzy Khachaturyan, NC POLICY WATCH, 8/21/19


Medicaid expansion is not just a moral imperative — it could provide a much-needed tonic for the fiscal ailments that many rural hospitals face in North Carolina. Legislative leaders’ refusal to expand Medicaid has deprived hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians of lifesaving medical care and has left rural hospitals dangling in the fiscal winds. As has happened in many states where Medicaid expansion has been blocked by a hardened ideological agenda, rural hospitals in North Carolina are struggling to cope with a number of pressures...

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