To: The North Carolina State House and Governor Roy Cooper

Veto Senate Bill 4, No Exchange/No Medicaid Expansion

NC must seize "the opportunity to provide access to affordable health care to 500,000 currently uninsured North Carolinians." Hospitals "lose the most on patients who have no insurance at all" and "are counting on an increase in paying Medicaid patients to offset the scheduled loss of the federal indigent care funds." We can't afford to lose our many, small, rural hospitals operating so close to the edge. The House must not pass, and, if it does, Gov. McCrory must veto Senate Bill 4, No Exchange/No Medicaid Expansion.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/18/2690111/verla-insko-keep-medicaid-funds.html

Why is this important?

NC must seize "the opportunity to provide access to affordable health care to 500,000 currently uninsured North Carolinians." Hospitals "lose the most on patients who have no insurance at all" and "are counting on an increase in paying Medicaid patients to offset the scheduled loss of the federal indigent care funds." We can't afford to lose our many, small, rural hospitals operating so close to the edge. The House must not pass, and, if it does, Gov. McCrory must veto Senate Bill 4, No Exchange/No Medicaid Expansion.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/18/2690111/verla-insko-keep-medicaid-funds.html