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Apodaca print friendly  Lawmakers forge ahead to block Medicaid
expansion  Published: 2013-02-04 17:36:00 Updated: 2013-02-04
23:53:10  The North Carolina Senate moved forward Monday night
with a plan to stop Medicaid from expanding under the Affordable
Care Act.  The joint federal-state benefit program currently
covers low-income parents, children, seniors and people with
disabilities, but not low-income adults without children or
disabilities. The federal health care reform law is trying to
change that by encouraging states to expand their Medicaid
programs to cover those adults.  T