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.
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How the loss of Affordable Care Act tax credits is affecting North Carolina
Affordable Care Act tax credits that reduced premium costs for millions of Americans expired after inaction from Congress. Here’s what that means for you.
Affordable Care Act premiums are about to soar in North Carolina
With Republicans in D.C. blocking renewed Affordable Care Act subsidies, North Carolina is passing along steep rate hikes for health care coverage.
Trump’s threats to repeal the Affordable Care Act would devastate North Carolina
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to healthcare for millions of Americans. A second Trump presidency could end that progress, especially in rural North Carolina. Fourteen years ago, on March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
GOP Plans Could Include Deep Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
House Republicans want to apply deep cuts to everything from health insurance to food assistance benefits, an effort that would plunge millions more Americans into extreme poverty.
Need Health Insurance? Here’s How to Enroll in the Affordable Care Act for 2023
There are a number of changes coming to ACA coverage in 2023. Here’s a breakdown of what enrollees need to know, and how to apply.
With RBG Gone, the Affordable Care Act Faces Its Greatest Threat Yet.
The healthcare law is in front of the Supreme Court once again in November, so COURIER decided to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the ACA.
Three Years After McCain’s Thumbs Down, Lawmakers Call for Protection of Affordable Care Act
On the anniversary of McCain’s vote, state and federal lawmakers warn that the ACA is still in peril as US Supreme Court weighs law’s fate.
Your weekly guide to taking action in North Carolina, March 20 – March 26
Across North Carolina, rallies against ICE, healthcare cuts, and the Trump administration are taking place across North Carolina.
Medicaid helps keep this NC teen alive and at home. Trump’s health care cuts will put her at risk.
With Medicaid cuts looming, the families of North Carolinians who rely on it are worried about what comes next for their loved ones.
Your weekly guide to taking action in North Carolina, March 13 – March 19
Across North Carolina, there are opportunities to protest ICE operations in the state, push back against the rise of authoritarianism in the country, and support public schools.
Your weekly guide to taking action in North Carolina, Feb. 27 – March 5
A weekly roundup of upcoming North Carolina political events, protests, advocacy opportunities, and ways to take action across the state.
NC receives $75.8M for childcare recovery from Helene. How to apply
The money will support childcare recovery after more than 230 childcare facilities were impacted by Helene and more than 100 childcare facilities were impacted by Debby.
Video: North Carolina network offers free health care for the uninsured
Free health care clinics hope to bridge the gaps as the loss of Affordable Care Act credits drives up the number of uninsured people in North Carolina.
Video: Introducing Bad Medicine, investigating healthcare in North Carolina
North Carolina’s healthcare system is facing one battle after another as decisions made in Washington make themselves felt here at home. That’s why we’re launching Bad Medicine.
How to get health care in North Carolina if you’re uninsured
For those who’ve lost health insurance, free clinics and providers offer help in uncertain times. Here’s how to get health care if you’re uninsured.
Introducing Bad Medicine, a weekly series investigating the state of health care in North Carolina
Cardinal & Pine taps its award-winning reporting to highlight the dangers federal policy changes pose to the state’s health care and what can be done about them.
Activists boycott Rep. Chuck Edwards’ McDonald’s over his support of SNAP cuts
A NC civil rights group says it is asking people to boycott US Rep. Chuck Edwards’ fast food restaurants, including McDonald’s, because of his vote to cut food benefits for poor people.
NC House votes to block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood
North Carolina Republicans approved a ‘bait and switch’ bill that would block Medicaid patients from using their insurance at Planned Parenthood clinics.
‘Housing is health care’: Trump’s Medicaid cuts could leave thousands of NC families homeless
Floodwaters, rats, and mold once threatened to derail a Haywood County family’s future—until Medicaid helped them find safe housing. Now advocates warn stories like theirs may disappear under Republicans’ “big beautiful bill.”
Opinion: If NC Democrats want impact, they need to be more competitive in state legislative elections
There are at least 15 state House and Senate races that were decided by less than a 5% margin in the last election. That’s where NC Democrats need to concentrate their efforts if they want to one day have a larger say in state policy.
A third of parents are putting career plans on hold due to the cost of childcare—even here in North Carolina
We treat childcare as a personal problem that deserves private suffering, instead of political action. I spent years thinking that it was my fault. As another mom said to me: “It feels like I’m the one doing something wrong.”
Beyond birth: The missing postpartum care putting North Carolina mothers at risk
While North Carolina has expanded Medicaid for postpartum care, gaps in maternal support persist. Entrepreneurs and lawmakers are stepping in to provide critical resources for new mothers who lack essential postpartum support.
Opinion: Nationwide threats to reproductive health care will come for us all
We can also expect the Trump Administration to take away affordable health care coverage and federal funding for people with low incomes, blocking them from getting essential services like birth control, STI testing and treatment, and cancer screenings from the reproductive health care provider they trust.
Opinion: The biggest factor the polls aren’t showing: People.
The biggest factor the polls aren’t showing is people. People volunteering. People talking with people. People rising. And, importantly, people who care deeply about real issues that lower costs for families and boost the economy – and importantly, people who also want less vitriol, racism, misogyny, and hate.
Opinion: Despite his silence, Donald Trump’s health care plan is bad medicine for Americans, especially women
“Donald Trump’s actions and intentions would effectively put politicians in the exam room with doctors and our patients,” Dr. Amelia Sutton, a maternal-fetal medicine physician in Charlotte, writes in an op-ed.
Harris announces new actions to alleviate medical debt in North Carolina
These actions include issuing advisories to prevent debt collectors from targeting families with illegal medical debt collection tactics and cracking down on certain collectors. The new efforts could have a major impact in North Carolina, where as many as three million people are affected by medical debt.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s healthcare plan would be ‘catastrophic’ for North Carolinians, a new Harris-Walz report says
Trump’s healthcare ‘concepts’ include repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would strip health insurance from more than 1.5 million North Carolinians, increase costs, and put people with preexisting conditions at risk of losing their coverage, the Harris-Walz report says.
Harris wants to cap child care costs and expand the child tax credit. Trump’s solution? Tariffs.
Harris has proposed capping families’ child care costs to 7% of their income and offering families of newborns up to $6,000 in the first year of the child’s life. Trump, on the other hand, has focused on tariffs as a solution to the child care crisis, despite evidence showing they would only raise costs for families.
Biden-Harris administration expands child care benefits in North Carolina
Vice President Kamala Harris announced lowered child care costs for working families in North Carolina, building on prior federal funding for child care programs and promising more.