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HEALTHCARE
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Opinion: North Carolina expanded Medicaid. Now what?

By | HEALTHCARE, Dawn Daly-Mack

It’s going to be the community here in Northampton who will make it happen. We need to advocate for more: more clinics and more providers to deliver the healthcare that Medicaid covers. When new businesses set up shop, we should ask them to invest in the community’s health, knowing that they will benefit when all of us have access to the care we need.

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Gwen Frisbie-Fulton: Why the costs of childcare shouldn’t be borne alone

by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton

| April 29, 2025

We’ve long known that there is a childcare crisis in the United States, with rising costs to parents and low pay for childcare workers. Forty percent of those who work in childcare make so little they qualify for some form of public assistance, like food subsidies, according to EdNC.
NC Innovations Waiver Waitlist

Opinion: My NC son has cerebral palsy. He’s waited 15 years for care from an underfunded Medicaid program.

by Sarah Potter

| April 9, 2025

Today, nearly 19,000 North Carolinians are on the waitlist for the Innovations Waiver, a Medicaid program in NC that helps fund care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The average wait time is 12 to 15 years.
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Opinion: Congress, not our state legislature, will decide whether NC’s Medicaid expansion is eliminated

by Fred Lewis

| March 28, 2025

Because the Senate Republican majority is very slim, it will take only four Republican senators to block the Medicaid cuts. Several conservative Republican senators already have expressed serious concerns with cutting Medicaid, since millions of working-class Trump voters would lose their health coverage.
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Opinion: Medicaid is my lifeline. If Republicans cut it, I could die early.

by Rachel Phipps

| March 26, 2025

Since being diagnosed, Medicaid has been my lifeline, providing the infusion treatments that allow me to function daily. Without this support, my quality of life would drastically decline, and I could face premature death. 
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NC Medicaid recipients say Republicans’ proposed cuts will ‘doom’ them to ‘early deaths’

by Dylan Rhoney

| March 12, 2025

House Republicans’ budget proposal could cut over $800 billion from Medicaid, which would have devastating consequences for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, who could lose access to essential healthcare and medications.
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Rose Hoban: Amid flu deaths in N.C., warning signs already for next year

by Rose Hoban

| March 11, 2025

The flu vaccine will never prevent all deaths or severe illness, but it helps reduce a significant amount of disease. But experts worry that without the U.S.’s contribution and coordination, the U.S. will fail the public it is sworn to protect.