North Carolina has passed critical legislation that Governor Roy Cooper has signed into law, creating a pathway to expanding Medicaid in our state, showing the significance and power of bipartisanship. Mr. Speaker, Nearly 100,000 Eastern North Carolinians have access to healthcare [as a result of Medicaid expansion]. That would come as a result, and there will be a creation of roughly 3,000 jobs in one of the most economically distressed parts of the state while saving our rural hospitals. (00:40–00:46)
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Asserts that Medicaid expansion will provide healthcare access to nearly 100,000 people in Eastern North Carolina.
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