The joint proposal, which has received the blessing of Democratic Gov.State of play: Berger and Moore's announcement comes just eight months after negotiations between the pair over what health care regulatory measures to package with Medicaid expansion fell apart. "This bill will help give hundreds of thousands more North Carolinians the chance to live healthy lives," Dave Almeida, senior director of government affairs at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, said in a statement.Why it matters: The agreement between Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore is a signal that the long-awaited legislation is almost certain to become law this year. After more than a decade of blocking North Carolina from expanding Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of the state's working poor, the legislature's Republican leaders reached a deal on a plan to do so, they announced Thursday.
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