This is great news for North Carolinians. Hopefully he can move quickly, before President-elect repeal and delay Obamacare is sworn in.
Of course Republicans drunk with power in North Carolina are outraged that the Governor wants to help the people of his state have more access to healthcare.
This is a great news and this is how we fight back against these assholes. We help the people and then these jerks can try taking away their healthcare.
Thank you Roy!
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Gov. Roy Cooper plans to take immediate executive action aimed at expanding Medicaid, defying a state law and setting up a confrontation with the Republican-dominated state legislature.
The amended plan would expand Medicaid as outlined in the federal Affordable Care Act and would have to be approved by the federal government. But Cooper has only about two weeks until President-elect Donald Trump, an adamant opponent of the law dubbed Obamacare, takes office. Trump has vowed to get rid of it.
Cooper said in a news conference following his talk that the law impinges on “the core executive authority of the governor to accept federal funds to look out for the health of the people.”
Cooper said he would rather avoid a dispute, adding he hopes legislators “will be receptive or at least let us do it without trying to stop us.”
Noelle Talley, Cooper’s spokeswoman, issued a statement saying, “It’s the Governor’s job to look out for North Carolina and Governor Cooper believes expanding Medicaid will help grow jobs and our economy. We fully expect input and cooperation from the legislature in this process and intend to comply with our state’s laws and the Constitution.”
The N.C. Justice Center, an advocacy group for the poor, issued a statement applauding Cooper’s effort “to close the coverage gap for nearly half a million North Carolinians by accepting Medicaid expansion.”