Medicaid expansion won’t begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1

With the state budget’s passage now two months late, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration announced Monday that it can’t start the implementation of Medicaid expansion to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults in the early fall as it had wanted.

“North Carolinians have been waiting for Medicaid expansion for a decade. Because of Republicans’ ongoing budget delay, that wait continues with no end in sight,” Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue and House Minority Leader Robert Reives said in a news release.