NC Medicaid recipients detail deadly consequence of funding cuts

NC Medicaid recipients detail deadly consequence of funding cuts

Medicaid in NC pays for the dialysis that keeps Crystal Upchurch alive. It also helped pay for the care that saved Maddie Wartenberg’s newborn son, Oliver. These are just two of the hundreds of thousands of North Carolina stories at the center of the Republican push to cut Medicaid spending by nearly a trillion dollars nationwide. The cuts passed last week in President Trump’s budget bill are not about waste and fraud, Medicaid recipients said i…