This year’s state budget process may have been one of the most discordant in recent memory, but Western North Carolina’s legislative delegation was ab.
When Republican Sen. Kevin Corbin, R-Franklin, announced during a March 25 listening session at Southwestern Community College that he intended to file a bill addressing the health care coverage gap, he also said he hadn’t quite formulated the particulars of it because he wanted to introduce something that would pass the Republican-controlled legislature.
With the insertion of specific language into placeholder bill S530 on April 5, Corbin along with co-sponsors Sen. Jim Burgin, R-Harnett, and Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Davie, will now get his chance to see what the Republican appetite is for incrementally closing the gap for a very important demographic.