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Georgia Sends a Preacher to Washington
Anger over Donald Trump’s leadership created an opening for progressives to flip formerly solid-red states such as Georgia and reclaim the identity of so-called values voters.
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Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on August 23, 2020. On January 6, 2021, Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, was the winner of one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs. Read Emma Green’s profile of the pastor, who is poised to become the first Black senator from Georgia.
ATLANTA In late July, Democratic political giants filed into the towering sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church to mourn the death of an era, and to declare a new one to come. This is the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, and where Representative John Lewis, the civil-rights icon, was now being laid to rest. Lewis’s pastor, Raphael Warnock, stood before the congregation in a black pulpit robe with Kente-cloth panels and lamented the cyn
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Lawmakers are fighting to help small businesses afford health insurance, but they’re running out of time.
As the pandemic and the shutdowns wreck the economy, thousands of North Carolinians continue to lose their insurance. North Carolina has nearly 1.2 million uninsured residents. Gov. Roy Cooper and his allies are pushing Medicaid expansion as the solution. But Republicans are skeptical, and they want other reforms.
Medicaid expansion receded into the background during the second meeting of the N.C. Council for Health Care Coverage on Friday, Dec. 18. Cooper filled the first meeting with reasons to expand Medicaid to cover low-income, childless adults. But after Republicans criticized the first meeting, the council turned its focus to other policies.
One potential North Carolina path to Medicaid expansion â a controversial work requirement â has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
Medicaid covers 2.2 million North Carolinians, with projections of expansion adding between 450,000 and 650,000 residents.
The justices are expected to review during their spring session the 3-0 D.C. Circuit Court ruling from February against work-requirement laws passed by Arkansas and New Hampshire.
The separate state cases have been consolidated by the Court.
Arkansas law placed a work, education and/or public service requirement on certain Medicaid recipients to qualify for benefits.
The N.C. General Assembly has not advanced a similar Medicaid-expansion work-requirement bill sponsored by Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, despite begrudging Democratic support.
Releases N350m to support health insurance scheme
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the release of N350 million for Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS) equity fund to provide free healthcare for 50,000 orphans, elderly and vulnerable in the state. x
Wife of the governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this, yesterday, at the celebration of the Year 2020 Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC) Day organised by the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), said that the development became necessary in view of the fact that the government recognises that not everyone can afford the premium of the LSHS.
Dr. Sanwo-Olu, represented by a former Permanent Secretary in the state, Dr. Bola Balogun, said: “It is gratifying to note that the governor appreciates the fact that not everyone can afford the premium, and has approved the release of funds from the equity to provide free healthcare within the Lagos State Health Scheme for