Health Care Archives — Progress NC Action

MAGA’s Budget Will Harm Kids, Too

By Matt Schlosser / July 25, 2025 / Comments Off

The MAGA budget slashes SNAP, the food assistance program that helps feed over 600,000 children in our state. It cuts Medicaid and CHIP, the health insurance programs that serve over 1.4 million NC kids. It even cuts funding for public schools– schools that are struggling to get by.

How Trump’s Bill Will Impact North Carolina– 3 Key Takeaways

By Matt Schlosser / June 6, 2025 / Comments Off

Amidst the battle between two of the world’s biggest egos, we don’t want to lose sight of who will truly be bearing the brunt of this 1,100 page bill– you.

There’s a Good Reason North Carolina Fought for Medicaid Expansion

By Matt Schlosser / March 7, 2025 / Comments Off

After a decade-long fight, North Carolina expanded Medicaid access in 2023. Expanding the federal health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans took extensive research, advocacy, and rallying. We were the 40th state to achieve expansion, but among the first to do it in the South. We did it with bipartisan support, and now 630,000 North Carolinians have health insurance coverage that they wouldn’t have had before.

AG Josh Stein announces NC’s decades-long backlog of 16,000 untested rape kits has been cleared

By Patrick Zarcone / April 19, 2024 / Comments Off

“We’ve put in place measures to ensure that we never get into this situation again in North Carolina, and I intend to continue to do everything in my power to help law enforcement solve cold cases and get rapists off the streets and behind bars,” Stein said.

Mifepristone case: Supreme Court holds first abortion-related hearing since overturning Roe

By Patrick Zarcone / April 1, 2024 / Comments Off

The effort to ban mifepristone is a direct attack on a common and essential type of health care. Neither judges nor politicians should have any say or control over the private health care decisions of others.

Sympathy for ‘fetal personhood’ – the argument used in Alabama court’s shocking IVF decision – already exists in NC’s court system

By Patrick Zarcone / March 1, 2024 / Comments Off

The chances of a ruling like Alabama’s happening in North Carolina are not out of the realm of possibility, considering the conservative state Supreme Court’s increasingly political (and personal) actions and rulings.

Trump, Mark Robinson share more than the stage at a Florida fundraiser – they also share a disdain for affordable health care

By Patrick Zarcone / December 15, 2023 / Comments Off

Donald Trump said he was “seriously looking at alternatives” to the ACA – the law that made Medicaid expansion possible. Speaking about Medicaid expansion in NC, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said he “hope[s] that it fails.”

Medicaid expansion is now the law in NC – and Republicans are to blame for the 10-year wait

By Patrick Zarcone / December 1, 2023 / Comments Off

If Republicans like Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson had their way, North Carolina would never expand Medicaid. “I’m not in favor of Medicaid expansion,” he said, “I hope that it fails.”

Finally! Medicaid will expand to 600,000 more North Carolinians starting Dec. 1

By Patrick Zarcone / November 17, 2023 / Comments Off

Exactly two weeks from today, North Carolina will finally expand Medicaid health care coverage to more than 600,000 North Carolinians. Health care advocates and Democrats pushed for more than a decade to expand Medicaid coverage.

NC Republicans finally agree on a budget – and it’s full of right-wing priorities; teachers, state employees will barely get raises

By Patrick Zarcone / September 22, 2023 / Comments Off

It took more than 80 days of secretive negotiations and an uproar over a move to tie Medicaid expansion to casino legislation, but Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly finally agreed on a budget on Wednesday afternoon.