This ! If you were going broke , but still went to Starbucks every day , shouldn ' t you maybe stop going to Starbucks ? $ 4 adds up . And how many teachersteachers ' aids have we let go in the past 5 years that those measly 10 mil could have saved ? Let ' s not even start on how teacher pay was stalled for years so that McCrory could strategically give them the largest pay raise at such a convenient time , right before an election and when we were 48 th in the nation for teacher pay . No one is checking genitalia in the bathrooms , then or now . It ' s a useless law designed to disenfranchise and humiliate transgender people . As a woman , I ' ve used the men ' s room multiple times when the line was too long and I bet a lot of women supporting HB 2 have done the same . The Affordable Care Act was designed for Medicare and Medicaid expansion to help cover the people who are currently having a hard time paying for insurance so that the cost would be more evenly distributed . Since many states , including ours , refused to expand these programs , insurance premiums are really high because it ' s cheaper for healthy people to pay the penalty rather than pay for premiums because they ' re in an in between space . Medicaid won ' t cover and premiums are too high . There are other reasons why the ACA isn ' t working , but mostly because what would pass the legislature relied on things that were taken out . Edited to add that teacher pay increased within a year of the election . Coincidence ? No