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With Medicaid expansion, NC governor solidified health care legacy 

NC Health News

Shortly after taking office in January 2017, Cooper asked the feds to override that law and implement expansion without the state legislature’s blessing. 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 [….]