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Tell the Trump Administration to stop sabotaging our health care system!

Access to health care coverage is a lifesaver for families and our economy. We are working to ensure every family has access to quality affordable health care coverage because no one should have to choose between paying for groceries or housing and paying their medical bills.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Health Care Maternal Justice

Black Maternal Health Week leads with research and healing

04/18/19
As midwife Jennie Joseph writes, “mothers can suffer and experience the effects of being in a living, breathing, materno-toxic zone all of their own, based on other people’s response or reaction to their race, socio-economic status, citizenship or by being “othered” while pregnant, delivering their baby or in the postpartum year, regardless of location.”
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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka
Medicaid Helps Families Weather The Storm
Health Care

TODAY: Take action to help NC's uninsured!

04/15/19
Today is the day! We are joining with thousands of people across North Carolina for a day of action to close the health care coverage gap! Here is what you can do right now to remind lawmakers that “Medicaid helps families weather the storm” and to expand health insurance to low-income uninsured...
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Felicia Burnett
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Health Care

Send a letter to the editor about extending health care coverage to low-income uninsured North Carolinians!

04/15/19
It’s common sense: When families have parents who are insured, the entire family’s health and economic security improves. As moms and dads, we get it. But some of our state lawmakers seem to be having a hard time understanding what a difference health coverage through Medicaid expansion could make...
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Felicia Burnett
Health Care

Medicaid Helps Families Weather the Storm (Storybook)

04/15/19
Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults. That...
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Felicia Burnett
Sign up: Statewide day of action to expand Medicaid!
Health Care

Quick Action: Statewide day of action to expand Medicaid!

04/11/19
Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, our lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults...
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Felicia Burnett
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The rise of teen JUULing and the vaping epidemic: What You Can Do

04/08/19
Feeling helpless and confused about the rise of teen JUULing and the vaping epidemic? So was I after finding what looked like an elongated USB drive and tiny empty plastic cartridges in my son’s backpack last summer. He’s a top student at a top-tier school, a sports team captain, club leader, and...
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Christine Chessen

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Tell the Trump Administration: Stop sabotaging our health care system!

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President Trump has been subverting the democratic process and working to reverse the progress and gains we’ve made on health care coverage in recent years every chance he gets.

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MomsRising wants to hear from YOU about how work-related requirements in order to access SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance would affect your family now or when you were on the programs in the past. Tell us your story!

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