Medicaid: Unraveling, Expanding, Delayed
Hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees in North Carolina could lose their benefits as the program reverts to pre-pandemic rules for re-enrollment. This is compounded by Raleigh's approval of Medicaid expansion and failure to pass the budget that will launch it. This has left local governments searching for enrollees and staffing up for significantly greater caseloads, while understaffed and uncertain of when the change will kick in.