Question

Provide an argument as to whether or not you believe North Carolina should expand Medicaid. Explain the pros and cons of your side of the argument. Consider the cost, quality, and access implications that Medicaid expansion may have on the state's healthcare system.

Answer 1

Expanding the North Carolina Medicaid program provides great benefits to access health services that make a healthier population. it helps low-income people to improve health outcomes through access to health care services. it reduces the health coverage gap for many individuals when they are at the poverty level.
Pros: It provides economic security for low-income people, it is greater savings and lower medical debt and bankruptcy, it provides equitable access to care, it avoids poverty level.
Cons: In north Carolina rural areas there is unavailable of primary care physicians to provide care for the patient. expanding medicare increases the cost of the state budget each year. but north Carolina general assembly first rejected federal dollars to expand Medicaid for few years, later on, it expanded Medicaid for many north Carolina to become eligible for the coverage for their chronic conditions and it makes them living healthy. they closed coverage gap for the people with quality care when the tax dollars back into the state that provide coverage for many people.