What percentage of North Carolinians do you think are on Medicaid?
Hi there,
What percentage of North Carolinians do you think are on Medicaid?
You might be shocked to know that after the recent expansion, around 1 in 4 North Carolinians rely on it.
In fact, more than 440,000 signed up for this big-government program in 2024.
Some progressives accuse conservatives of wanting to “hurt poor people” whenever we list our concerns with Medicaid expansion.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
It’s expanding Medicaid that makes healthcare worse for all North Carolinians.
The bottom line is this: coverage does not mean access to care.
Expanding access to Medicaid means longer wait times for appointments (have you heard how long Canadians have to wait to see a doctor?).
And on top of that, North Carolina’s healthcare system is already short-staffed. So all of this means that there are more patients going to fewer doctors more often.
Just in the past year, state spending on Medicaid increased by $748 million!
Essentially, North Carolinians pay more AND get worse care. (And we won’t even get into the rampant fraud).
Here’s what North Carolina should do instead: reduce government intervention in healthcare. History has shown us that the more government involvement in an industry, the higher the costs are for consumers.
North Carolinians deserve affordable, reliable healthcare access. Expanding government is not the way to get there.
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