by Thomas Mills | Sep 3, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Medicaid, Obamacare |
Republicans’ rational for refusing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act just keeps getting thinner. Originally, they thought they could hamstring the new law and force its repeal or restructuring. If a few million people missed out on health care, so be...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 1, 2014 | Income Inequality, Medicaid, NC Politics |
Dear Senator Brown: I was glad to hear you lament that “the rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer.” That’s why I am puzzled by your actions in the General Assembly, including with regard to H1224. I was hoping you could clear things up. Throughout the...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 6, 2014 | DHHS, Editor's Blog, Medicaid |
The News & Observer began a series this weekend outlining the Medicaid problems facing North Carolina. Two things are clear. The system has had problems for a very long time. And, two, Pat McCrory has made the problems worse, not better. In the big picture, the...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 5, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Medicaid |
So far, Pat McCrory and the legislature have rejected the Medicaid expansion that would offer healthcare to 500,000 North Carolinians because: Medicaid is broken. they don’t trust the federal government to follow through on their commitment. it would be too...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 11, 2013 | Editor's Blog, Medicaid, Obamacare |
The North Carolina Republicans’ rejection of the Medicaid expansion and their failure to set up state exchanges under Obamacare should be reason for firing. Decisions by Phil Berger, Thom Tillis and Pat McCrory left 500,000 North Carolinians uninsured, cost the...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 9, 2013 | Editor's Blog, Medicaid, NC Politics, NCGov |
One thing is clear. Pat McCrory came to Raleigh with an agenda for Medicaid and he wasn’t about to let pesky facts get in his way. He never has. He found a partisan ideologue to run the Department of Health and Human Services and got rid of all those mindless...
