Medicaid expansion coverage enrollment in North Carolina now above 400,000

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Enrollment in North Carolina’s new Medicaid coverage for low-income adults has surpassed 400,000 in the expansion program’s first four months, Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Monday. The full health benefits coverage for some adults ages 19-64 who earn too much to qualify for traditional Medicaid , roughly two months after lawmakers completed their last step to implement a deal available through the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act. Nearly 273,000 people, most of whom had been receiving Medicaid for family-planning coverage alone, were covered on the first...