Health Care
The move to limit vaccine access is being spearheaded by Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.– a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theory enthusiast. He’s falsely claimed that WiFi causes cancer, that anti-depressants lead to mass shootings, and that vaccines cause autism. It’s a tough resume for the head of the federal agency responsible for promoting public health.
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1 million North Carolinians are about to see their health insurance costs increase by 75% due to the Republican budget.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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