"North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid: It could have helped my mother, it would help me."

1.0Welcome to Down Home!https://downhomenc.orgDown Home NChttps://downhomenc.org/author/downhomenc/"North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid: It could have helped my mother, it would help me."rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="0vzTyj6zEs"><a href="https://downhomenc.org/2020/05/29/north-carolina-needs-to-expand-medicaid-it-could-have-helped-my-mother-it-would-help-me/">“North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid: It could have helped my mother, it would help me.”</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://downhomenc.org/2020/05/29/north-carolina-needs-to-expand-medicaid-it-could-have-helped-my-mother-it-would-help-me/embed/#?secret=0vzTyj6zEs" width="600" height="338" title="““North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid: It could have helped my mother, it would help me.”” — Welcome to Down Home!" data-secret="0vzTyj6zEs" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://downhomenc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Morgan-Childers-and-Mom-cropped.jpg638366Morgan 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.