North Carolina Medicaid expansion faces new threat

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A potentially big hit to North Carolina Medicaid

There’s lots of concern that some Medicaid members could lose coverage because of the work requirements in Republicans’ tax bill. Those concerns are intensified in North Carolina, where the proportion of people who risk getting kicked off is much larger: almost one-quarter of current members, or about 685,000 people.