Votes on premium increases for 2027 could come next August.

These increases apply to premiums before subsidies, which are at the center of the federal shutdown stalemate.

“It kept changing me. I can’t reverse the damage, but I can try to help keep someone else safe,” said Dabney Ferris, who started using THC when she was 15.

An NC Medicaid official estimated up to a potential $27 billion federal funding loss for North Carolina should cuts be enacted, with rural communities hit hardest.

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State Treasurer Brad Briner said he expects that after all possible savings are made, premiums would need to be raised for the first time in nine years.

UNC says an “endorsement or reference from someone connected to the University” doesn’t, on its own, decide who is admitted.