NC Mayor Visits DC With 'ACO' Plan To Save Hospital, Energizes New Medicaid Expansion Caucus

Rural North Carolina mayor Adam O'Neal arrived in Washington, DC Monday after a 273-mile walk from his home in Belhaven with a plan to reopen the critical-care hospital in his community that was closed July 1, partly due to his state's refusal to expand Medicaid, by incorporating the hospital into an accountable care organization. A newly formed House State Medicaid Expansion Caucus plans to highlight Belhaven's plight in floor speeches and op-eds urging the 24 states that haven't to expand...