Download or read book Expanding Health Insurance Coverage to More North Carolinians written by North Carolina Institute of Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services received a one-year State Planning Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to study options to expand coverage to the uninsured. The task force offered 13 recommendations, 5 of which were considered priority recommendations. Summarized, those 5 are: additional state funding, promotion of personal responsibility, development of limited-benefit Medicaid expansion, creation of a subsidized health insurance product, and creation of a high-risk pool for pre-existing conditions.