Keeping Our Communities Safe: COVID-19 and Rural North Carolina
The data is alarming: Summer is here, and North Carolina is seeing a spike in COVID-19 infections. North Carolina is one of the 14 states that have hit new highs …
Weaponizing Healthcare: We Need Medicaid Expansion and We Can’t Let Them Divide Us
Once it became clear that Brown, Black, and poor communities were being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, pushes to reopen our state began. How does this intersect with healthcare, essential workers, and the need to build multiracial power? Let us explain.
“North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid: It could have helped my mother, it would help me.”
Morgan and her mother both have suffered from chronic illness. Morgan knows firsthand the difficulty in obtaining… and keeping… health insurance. She is one of the many North Carolinians that could be covered if we expanded Medicaid… and its not lost her her that her mother might still be with us if we had.
Jackson County, the Opioid Crisis, and Access to Healthcare: North Carolina needs to Expand Medicaid NOW!
In Jackson County, Down Home member Teri Cole sees issues that we organize around collide: Opioids, COVID19, Poverty and a lack of access to healthcare. But there is one solution that could help all of these crises: Medicaid Expansion.
“My healthcare story isn’t only about struggling to get the care I needed, it’s about racking up medical bills.”
Even young people like Nichole are hurt by North Carolina refusing to expand Medicaid. While working and going to school, Nichole had to fight to get the vital care she needed– but then she was left with 6 figure debt that will follow her throughout her adult life.
Now, more than ever, North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid.
Protect essential workers! Protect North Carolina families! Protect rural hospitals! Sign the petition to expand Medicaid!