The state's health secretary says her agency is collecting information for Governor Pat McCrory to offer him possible options for expanding Medicaid coverage under the federal health care initiative. The remarks came Wednesday as the secretary was presenting a proposal for overhauling the state's Medicaid program to the Legislature.
The Republican-led General Assembly and the governor declined to accept expansion last year because they said the state Medicaid office faced large shortfalls and troubled operations. But Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Aldona Wos told a legislative oversight committee Wednesday that financial and structural improvements would make expansion more feasible.
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Vos's remarks were part of a proposal to make the state's Medicaid program more efficient.
Wos touts the initiative as the first major overhaul since the state's Medicaid program started in 1978.
The governor and the North Carolina House support refining the existing state Medicaid system. The Senate, however, is promoting privatization, and encouraging out-of-state for-profit companies to compete to offer services.
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