Madam speaker, today with my former colleagues in the North Carolina General assembly reaching an agreement to a pass a new state budget comes the expansion of Medicaid. More than a decade after the Affordable Care act became law, 95,000 Eastern North Carolinians trapped in the Medicaid coverage gap have been waiting or in some cases dying without access to life saving health care. Since entering Congress, healthcare has been my top legislative priority, having led, co led or co sponsored more than 50 bipartisan pieces of legislation. (00:33–00:47)
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