NC, US officials file motions to reverse lower court ban on state’s Medicaid expansion request: 3 key notes

After U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan banned South Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) Medicaid expansion request, several state and federal officials filed court motions to lift the ban on Sept. 16, 2017, the Charlotte Observer reports.

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Here’s what you should know.

1. State and federal officials argued that North Carolina legislators “overstated potential problems that could come from such an expansion,” the Charlotte Observer reports.

2. Gov. Cooper is attempting to expand North Carolina’s Medicaid program under the ACA’s provisions.

3. The state has provisions against such an expansion without legislature approval, but Gov. Cooper argued the expansion is exempt to the law.

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