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In 2022, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services officials said Madison and three other mountain counties needed 67 more acute care hospital beds.

A North Carolina hospital was slated to open in 2025. Mired in bureaucracy, it’s still a dirt field.

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Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.
NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Cardinal & Pine

Video: NC Republicans could fully fund Medicaid if they wanted to, NC Dems says

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NC Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat, spoke with Cardinal & Pine last month as lawmakers had a chance to return to session and do something about Medicaid funding.
NC gerrymandering

Federal judges uphold several North Carolina US House districts drawn by Republicans

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Federal judges will allow some of North Carolina state lawmakers' gerrymandered US House districts to go on, but this year's Trump-endorsed redrawing of a Black voting district is still up in the air. 
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Video: NC Republicans fail to fund domestic violence prevention program

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With NC Republicans stalled on a budget deal, an ankle-monitoring program designed to stop domestic violence expires. 
NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Cardinal & Pine

Josh Stein demanded NC Republicans fund Medicaid. You can’t make us, they said.

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Republican leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly refused Gov. Josh Stein’s recent order demanding they hold a special session to address the state’s urgent Medicaid shortfall.