She paid into Medicare for years. Trump's immigration policy will end her coverage

Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza’s once secure retirement is in question.

Gov. Josh Stein this week applauded the work of the recently opened ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital for bringing needed mental health care to people in eastern North Carolina.

Health systems must move beyond clinic walls and bring preventive services directly into communities.

The CMS said beneficiaries will see simpler, more flexible plan choices and better drug coverage as part of the changes.