The ACA helped North Carolina expand Medicaid to more than 720,000 people, and prevented insurers from refusing to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
A US District Court sided with major medical institutions that the changes pushed by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were unlawful partly because they valued politics over expertise.
With Medicaid cuts looming, the families of North Carolinians who rely on it are worried about what comes next for their loved ones.
If people lose insurance, they often rely on emergency rooms. But ERs were never intended to replace primary care, doctors warn
Medicaid cuts could worsen an existing nursing shortage that is already exhausting nurses and putting patients in danger.
Across eastern NC, emergency care services aren’t always easy to come by and often require long wait times or distant drives.
Mission Hospital, like many across the country, is severely understaffed, posing a risk to patients who seek care there. If Trump’s Medicaid cuts go through, a bad situation will get much worse.
Seventy of North Carolina’s 78 rural counties are considered “medical deserts.”
A person with measles visited several public locations in Wake County on Feb. 5 and 6, including a gym and supermarket.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that adults who had heard of federal changes to the childhood vaccine schedule were twice as likely to say it would hurt children than help them.
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