North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) says he will discuss expanding Medicaid under Obamacare when he meets Tuesday with President Barack Obama, the Associated Press reported, another sign that a big GOP-controlled state is slowly coming around on the program.
McCrory wants “to be allowed to devise a North Carolina solution to health care for families,” he told a group of business leaders Monday, per the AP. He will meet with Obama and the state’s two Republican senators on Tuesday.
“I’ve said from the beginning, even last year, that I will not close the door to keeping that option available,” McCrory said.
The governor has routinely left the door cracked open to expand Medicaid under the federal health care reform law, though he has rarely been specific about what kind of conservative plan he would be interested in pursuing to do so. His predecessor, Democrat Bev Perdue, had been hamstrung by the Republican legislature, and McCrory hasn’t prioritized the program since taking office in 2013.
McCrory’s latest overture comes as other deeply conservative states like Wyoming are moving steadily toward Medicaid expansion and even major holdouts like Texas have shown public signs of softening.
Nearly 320,000 low-income North Carolinians would be covered under the program.
Just seeing that puke’s face makes my blood boil.
And I really like how all these pukes (Haslam TN, Herbert UT, Mead WY, Abbott TX,) all do this after the '14 elections. Weasels.
My guess is that hospitals are behind the recent overtures by GOP Govs to consider expanding Medicaid under the ACA. Hospitals lose money when they are forced to care for uninsured patients. So, I am guessing that hospital execs, particularly those running facilities in rural areas, are putting pressure on Govs to reach some kind of deal with the Administration regarding expansion. Plus, absent some insane ruling from the Supreme Court, my hope is that in 2015 we can enjoy at least of year of reduced political posturing with regard to the ACA.
“McCrory wants ‘to be allowed to devise a North Carolina solution to health care for families’,”
McCrory wants to be allowed to expand Medicaid in North Carolina in a manner that threatens the ACA and provides opportunities for the racist pigdog GOP/Teatrolls running the state to punish poor minorities into moving to a bluer state.
FIFY
I had figured the holdout states would have to come around eventually – the math is inescapable – but it took a lot longer for them to do so that I had thought it would. But I suppose that is to be expected of people who are still fighting a war that ended a hundred years ago.
McCrory is using weasel words about Medicaid expansion in the same way that bottom tier candidates talk about exploring the possibility of running for the presidency. They’re itching to do it, but feel they must be coy