Republican state Rep. Donny Lambeth backed expanding Medicaid in North Carolina for nearly a decade before it passed in that state last year.
But when he would talk about it, the former hospital executive said there was one phrase he avoided: Medicaid expansion.
“I never talked about this bill as an expansion bill,” said Lambeth, who was the primary sponsor of the bill that expanded Medicaid in North Carolina last year. “I talked about it closing the coverage gap. I talked about it as job development – a lot of things – but never did use the word ‘expansion.’”
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