Medicaid expansion has provided almost 300,000 North Carolinians with access to healthcare.
Parker Chatham is the Executive Director of Restoration House, a low barrier homeless shelter in Bryson City. He says that Medicaid expansion has especially helped the people he works with each day.
“Medicaid is really going to serve as a bouncing block to access to a lot of different services,” Chatham said.
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