Danielle Battaglia, News & Observer – North Carolina Democrats say this could be the year Republican lawmakers agree to pass a Medicaid expansion — but under a different name. “I think that they call it “Close the Coverage Gap” and that’s fine,” said state Sen. Mike Woodard, a Durham Democrat. “We can give it whatever name we want, but for those 700,000 to 800,000 North Carolinians that fall into the coverage gap, they need to be covered.”

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