[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 18, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H1789-H1790]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ADDRESSING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE

  (Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss a topic 
important to the people of North Carolina's First Congressional 
District: addressing access to healthcare.
  April is Medicaid Awareness Month, and I was honored to kick it off 
with my fellow State Medicaid Expansion Caucus co-chairs and Protect 
Our Care.
  North Carolina has passed critical legislation that Governor Roy 
Cooper has signed into law, creating a pathway to expanding Medicaid in 
our State, showing the significance and power of bipartisanship.
  Mr. Speaker, nearly 100,000 eastern North Carolinians would have 
access to healthcare that would come as a result. There would be a 
creation of roughly 3,000 jobs in one of the most economically 
distressed parts of the State while saving our rural hospitals.
  Mr. Speaker, nearly 2 million Americans remain trapped in a coverage 
gap. Medicaid Awareness Month is the perfect time to make a bipartisan 
appeal.

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Let us work together to close that gap so that the greater good of 
Americans will benefit.

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