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In Its Second Year, How Effective Is The Affordable Care Act In North Carolina?

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The is still attracting big enrollment numbers in North Carolina.

Nearly 500,000 people in the state have coverage, but by as much as 40 percent next year for some health plans.

   

And the Obama administration says more than 300,000 people still are not covered because the state did not expand Medicaid. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with , reporter for Triangle Business Journal, about the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act in North Carolina in its second year on the market. 

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
Will Michaels is ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s Weekend Host and Reporter.
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