New report says 634K more North Carolinians would get health-care coverage under Medicaid expansion

About 634,000 North Carolina residents would gain health-care coverage over the next three years if the state expands access to Medicaid, a new report released today says.

The report, paid for by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and the Cone Health Foundation and done by George Washington University researchers, comes as the state’s lawmakers debate expansion of the state’s Medicaid program.

According to the report, if Medicaid were expanded as early as November 2019, 464,000 North Carolinians would gain coverage by the end of 2020; by the end of 2022, that number would increase to 634,000.

Medicaid already serves 2.14 million North Carolinians, representing about 21% of the state population. Another 1.6 million will be enrolled in Medicaid through a new managed-care program that is projected to be rolled out in the state between November and February.

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(Winston-Salem Journal)