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Opinion: Gov. Cooper: NC hospitals should step up instead of holding up Medicaid expansion

By The News & Observer  
   August 02, 2022

After years of opposing it, Republicans now support it. That’s a big deal. And it’s real progress that they’re now saying what we’ve said for years: Medicaid expansion will help save rural hospitals, take pressure off businesses, increase mental health care, and provide insurance for hundreds of thousands of working North Carolinians at no cost to the state. It will save lives and livelihoods. Of course, as usual, there’s a hitch.

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