Careful studies have long indicated that North Carolina’s decision to reject Medicaid expansion is an extraordinarily costly one. Not only does the state forgo tens of billions of federal health care dollars, hundreds of millions of state and local dollars in tax revenue, tens of thousands of jobs, hundreds of millions in savings for uncompensated hospital care, but, more directly, 463,000 low income Tar Heels are denied the health care coverage intended under expansion.Huge numbers of poor residents are now effectively barred from routine medications for treatable conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and depression. They will not receive essential tests and screenings—mammograms, colonoscopies, sonograms, and the like—needed to maintain reasonable health. As many as 1,145 deaths, per year, will occur prematurely and many thousands more will suffer needlessly, triggering soaring and disproportionate medical costs for emergency procedures.Still, these somber data don’t reflect fully the …
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Crushing impoverished Tar Heels by denying Medicaid