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With North Carolina’s new budget, Medicaid expansion is now written into the law. Take a look at key policies included in expansion and how to sign up for this insurance program.
Medicaid expansion was an unrealistic proposition for the better part of a decade as North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature bristled at its Obama-era origins. That changed in 2022.
DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley talked about how Medicaid expansion is going and his priorities going into next year.
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
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The federal government foots 90% of the expansion costs under the program. In just the first few weeks of the program's rollout, the state had 300,000 North Carolinians — half of its goal — enroll in Medicaid expansion. North Carolina is part of a handful of Southern states that now participate in the program.
Previously, the income limit for eligibility under Medicaid for a parent or caretaker in North Carolina was 41% of the federal poverty level, or just over $8,000 yearly for a family of three.
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