If there’s one story that’s been notably and inexplicably under-reported in the mainstream news media this week it’s been this one. As our former colleague Adam Searing, to his credit, reported Monday:

In two interviews over the last few days, North Carolina’s Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Aldona Wos and NC’s Medicaid Director Dr. Robin Cummings address the question of Medicaid expansion in NC: How soon, the presentation of options for policymakers and whether the state should create its own unique plan are discussed. Both officials comment on the fact that the federal government is working with states to create state-tailored plans and seem clear that North Carolina’s Governor will be presented with options for expansion that can be taken to NC’s General Assembly. No timeline is discussed, but NC’s legislature reconvenes in January 2015.

Click here to watch Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos and Medicaid Director Robin Cummings finally confirm plans to do what advocates, providers and economists have been demanding for nearly two years: expand Medicaid.