Further by not expanding Medicaid, our legislature has forfeited billions of our tax dollars which instead of being spent in North Carolina, are being spent in other states who have expanded Medicaid.These funds would have resulted in tens of thousands of new jobs in North Carolina, prevented the closure of several rural hospitals, and the exodus of large numbers of physicians from many of our rural communities.

If elected I will stand lockstep with Gov. Cooper in demanding that we immediately expand Medicaid. I do this to see that hundreds of thousands of my fellow North Carolinians will get access to healthcare, to create thousands of new jobs, most of which will be high-paying, to preserve rural hospitals and to expand rural healthcare for all who live in my district and similar ones throughout the state.