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With Medicaid expansion, NC governor solidified health care legacy 

NC Health News

But the contentious nature of the Affordable Care Act drove North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly to pass a 2013 law requiring legislative approval to expand Medicaid in the state. We also were able to get tough-on-crime sheriffs who knew that many of the people sitting in their jails needed health care and not handcuffs [….]