GOP senators say expanding Medicaid in NC is OK. How about adding: 'Sorry for the delay'?

The day after the Republican-led state Senate ended years of opposition and approved a bill expanding Medicaid, I called a doctor who has long been outraged by the human cost of lawmakers’ refusal to expand the health insurance program for low-income people.

Despite the Senate vote, he’s still outraged.

Dr. Pradeep Arumugham, a Kinston cardiologist who generously treats uninsured patients, welcomes the Senate’s support for expansion, but he knows Republicans in the state House still oppose it. While the impasse drags on, some of his patients continue to die for want of health insurance.

Two months ago, it was a 29-year-old female uninsured patient who died. Now he’s fearful for the life of a 23-year-old man with “a very weak heart” who lost his job, his insurance and his access to the drugs and procedures that could save him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-expanding-medicaid-nc-083000451.html