After years of pleading by advocates, lawmakers in North Carolina are giving serious consideration to adding about a half-million low-income workers and their families to the Medicaid program.
The end of appeals by two insurance providers fighting how North Carolina’s health department decided who would run its new Medicaid managed-care initiative means legal challenges over the awarding of the contracts are over.
In politically divided North Carolina, hostilities between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and majority-Republican lawmakers have eased somewhat as 2021 nears its end. But their relationship is still far from harmonious.