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‘Housing is health care’: Trump’s Medicaid cuts could leave thousands of NC families homeless

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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.”
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‘I’m afraid of no access’: Calls flood NC clinics as providers warn of a backdoor abortion ban

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Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill threatens to pull Medicaid coverage from clinics that provide reproductive health care across the nation.
Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ by the numbers: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE

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Here is a by-the-numbers look at Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" and its significant impact on the lives of women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans.
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Small towns are having a hard time getting healthcare. A new program offers loan repayments for rural NC doctors.

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North Carolina’s new loan repayment initiative aims to attract and retain primary care physicians in rural areas. North Carolina is taking bold steps to address the critical shortage of healthcare providers in its rural communities, which serve nearly one-third of the state’s population. Through its new loan repayment initiative, the state aims to attract and […]