“Every state that has expanded Medicaid has seen a huge influx of able-bodied adults crowding their programs. In all these states, total enrollment far exceeded what expansion advocates estimated. What would make North Carolina any different?”
(Statement by the Foundation for Government Accountability after the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bipartisan Medicaid expansion bill. North State Journal, March 29, 2023)
“This course reversal on Medicaid expansion is hugely disappointing. For years, the fiscally conservative legislature has stuck to sound economic principles. Their assertions that expansion will end if it becomes fiscally untenable is a pipe dream."
(John Locke Foundation president Donald Bryson, reacting to the Medicaid expansion vote in Raleigh. Source: North State Journal, March 29, 2023)
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