(The Center Square) – An average of 1,000 North Carolina residents are signing up each day for Medicaid since the state expanded the program Dec. 1.
That’s twice as fast as other states that recently expanded their programs, said Kody Kinsley, the state’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Meeting with a legislative committee Tuesday, Kinsley said 389,411 residents have registered. That includes 272,937 people who were automatically enrolled on the first day.
“Our campaigns are going strong, with over 30 million impressions on social” media, Kinsley said.
The agency has translated materials on the expansion into other languages including Arabic and Vietnamese, he said.
Eventually, the state expects 600,000 enrollees under the expansion of the joint state-federal health care program.
Although complete claims data is not yet available, there is no indication that the new enrollees are having trouble finding health-care providers, Kinsley told the legislators.
“People are getting care,” he
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