Cooper signs Medicaid expansion bill

North Carolina is now the 40th state in the country to expand Medicaid. But the bill's implementation is contingent on a new budget being enacted.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signs Medicaid expansion bill on Monday, March 27. (Source: NC Governor’s Office Twitter Livestream)

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday signed a bill to expand access to health care to an estimated 600,000 North Carolinians.

“This law, once implemented, will be the working families bill of the decade,” Cooper said in a…