North Carolina on track for Medicaid expansion

Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature on Thursday reached an agreement on how to expand the state's Medicaid program, after years of blocking the policy, Axios' Lucille Sherman writes. • Negotiations between the two chambers stalled last summer over what to include in a Medicaid expansion bill, in part because of the North Carolina Hospital Association's resistance to regulatory provisions in one version of the legislation. Why it matters: If the latest plan becomes law as expected, hundreds of thousands of the state's poorest residents would receive health care...