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Statement

A Great Day for North Carolina, As Gov. Cooper Signs Medicaid Expansion Into Law

March 27, 2023
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Felicia Burnett, National Director for Health Care at MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, including 47,000 in North Carolina, on Governor Roy Cooper signing North Carolina Medicaid expansion into law:

“The health and wellbeing of North Carolina moms and families is sure to improve now that state legislators passed and Gov. Roy Cooper signed Medicaid expansion into law. Some 600,000 North Carolinians will benefit directly, and many more will reap benefits from this very welcome and long overdue advance. Closing our state’s coverage gap will improve coverage and care for people in rural communities, help close racial health disparities, and improve maternal and infant health and access to mental health and substance abuse services.

“This is a great day for our state. Medicaid expansion will save lives and save the state money. We thank Gov. Cooper for signing it, and House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate Leader Phil Berger for ensuring its passage. Now North Carolina moms are counting on legislators to refrain from including in the state budget anything that would undermine our health and the bipartisan support for this measure. 

“Everyone, regardless of zip code, income or race, deserves to be safe and to be able to access health insurance coverage and care. We hope every state that hasn’t yet expanded Medicaid will do so very soon.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.