Governor Roy Cooper wraps up a six-county tour of Western North Carolina on Friday. BPR caught up with him at Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital in Murphy where he was talking Medicaid Expansion. At a roundtable with hospital officials and Murphy community leaders, the governor heard a lot about the need to expand Medicaid - especially for the Western end of the state. Murphy Mayor Rick Ramsey explained that at the beginning of 2018 Tennessee-based Erlanger nonprofit health system bought Murphy