Tag: Medicaid expansion
![Senior carpenter having back pain stock photo](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/iStock-885281276.png.webp)
Picture an older warehouse worker whose back pain might qualify him for a federal cash benefit for his disability. If he’s right and his application is approved, he would get the Medicare health insurance he needs to manage his condition. But there’s a problem. Applicants often quit their jobs to strengthen the case for disability…
![Sacramento County building for Department Of Human Assistance. Providng support to low income residents of the state.](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-building-new.png.webp)
In December, North Carolina will become the 40th state to expand its Medicaid program, providing health insurance coverage to some 300,000 more low-income workers, many of them for the first time. It has taken the states a decade to reach that milestone, despite generous funding from the federal government under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…