After public pushback, state legislators backtracked and repealed some of the requirements.
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Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
17 Aug. 2026
With this new evidence in hand, North Carolina’s legislators voted in July to continue the program, which was paused in the state’s budget impasse last year, scaling access to key drivers of savings and help close the gap in Medicaid state funding.
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