NC Sen. Berger willing to consider Medicaid expansion
Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Senate’s top Republican, a longtime opponent of expanding Medicaid through the 2010 federal health care law, says he’s now been willing to consider enacting expansion as part of horse-trading with Democratic Gov. Berger still believes expansion is a bad policy, but said Tuesday he’s “indicated that I thought that was something that would be appropriate for us to move forward with.” But he said his viewpoint does not matter that much if expansion can’t pass the legislature. Moore and Berger said in separate interviews that GOP legislators remain far apart with Cooper over finalizing a two-year budget, with tax cuts and education spending and policy among their differences. Berger and Moore both suggested that the General Assembly may soon approve a budget to the GOP’s liking and work instead to try to override Cooper’s expected veto.