Category: Mel Watt

Healthcare Reform and the NC Congressional Delegation

November 11, 2009 by Betsy Muse

When Lowell first contacted me to give an update on North Carolina’s congressional delegation he asked me to address whether North Carolina might choose to opt out of participating in programs set up through federal healthcare legislation. My first thought was, “this man doesn’t know the difference between North Carolina and South Carolina.” However, with the mood in my state and the look of the generic ballots coming out of Public Policy Polling, Democrats could lose our control of the state legislature next year and wind up looking more like South Carolina than we would like...politically speaking.