H76 provides Medicaid coverage though NC Health Works to adults aged 18-64 with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level, while authorizing increased Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals.
The House passed H76 on February 16, 2023, by a vote of 92 to 22. We have assigned pluses to the noes because neither healthcare nor social welfare is the legitimate object of government. Medicaid, like other so-called ‘entitlement programs,’ not only causes more debt, poverty, and government dependency in the United States, but continues the anti-constitutional and discriminatory act of income-based taxpayer theft, which deprives hardworking American citizens of their right to the wages they have earned. The Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were intended to safeguard against undue disparagements of a person’s “property” and provide “equal protection of the laws” for all Americans.