North Carolina Leaders Are Embracing a Flawed Medicaid Financing Scheme. It’s Time to End It.
Joseph Coletti
Former Vice President Joe Biden was right when he called it a $40 billion scam. That’s how Biden once characterized Medicaid provider taxes. States impose these taxes on hospitals or other providers to recover a portion of state Medicaid costs while still drawing down more federal payments. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and state legislators…
