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Medicaid In North Carolina

WUNC News | By Anita Rao,
Frank Stasio
Published May 19, 2015 at 11:45 AM EDT
Medicaid Reform is at the top of this year's legislative agenda. We'll preview a new report from Wake Forest University argues for a hybrid strategy. The report analyzes data from existing hybrid plans in Ohio and Oregon and asserts that a hybrid model for Medicaid can achieve both patient-centered care and budget control.
Medicaid Reform is at the top of this year's legislative agenda. We'll preview a new report from Wake Forest University argues for a hybrid strategy. The report analyzes data from existing hybrid plans in Ohio and Oregon and asserts that a hybrid model for Medicaid can achieve both patient-centered care and budget control.
Medicaid Reform is at the top of this year's legislative agenda. We'll preview a new report from Wake Forest University argues for a hybrid strategy. The report analyzes data from existing hybrid plans in Ohio and Oregon and asserts that a hybrid model for Medicaid can achieve both patient-centered care and budget control.
Medicaid Reform is at the top of this year's legislative agenda. We'll preview a new report from Wake Forest University argues for a hybrid strategy. The report analyzes data from existing hybrid plans in Ohio and Oregon and asserts that a hybrid model for Medicaid can achieve both patient-centered care and budget control.

Medicaid reform is at the forefront of the state's legislative agenda this session, but legislators are still debating how to design the reform. 

The Senate wants to privatize administration and let commercial insurance companies control the market while the House and Governor McCrory want state health care providers to be in charge. A new report from Wake Forest University argues for a hybrid strategy. Host Frank Stasio talks with Wake Forest University law and public health professor Mark Hall about Medicade in North Carolina

The report analyzes data from existing hybrid plans in Ohio and Oregon and asserts that a hybrid model for Medicaid can achieve both patient-centered care and budget control.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Wake Forest University law and public health professor Mark Hall who co-authored the report.  

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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Frank Stasio
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.
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