As part of an assessment of how the state is doing heading into a critical election Nov. 8, The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer asked the candidates for governor about their plans for health care. Here are answers from Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and his challengers, Democrat Roy Cooper and Libertarian Lon Cecil.Q: What’s your position on expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and if you oppose it, what would you do about the estimated 500,000 North Carolinians who won’t have health insurance without the expansion?Cecil: PPACA was touted as “universal healthcare” when it was passed by Congress and the U.S. Senate. ACA covered expanding Medicaid for the first two years, then transfers all of the expanded costs to each state. It was bait and switch to get votes from Medicaid recipients. Governor McCrory and the legislature were correct to not accept the unfunded …
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NC governor candidates on Medicaid, ACA, vaccines, other health issues