The Walgreens pharmacy in the East 54 community in Chapel Hill hosted an atypical visitor on Wednesday morning: North Carolina’s governor. Gov. Roy Cooper joined several state health officials and Walgreens representatives to make an announcement of a new benefit through North Carolina’s recently expanded Medicaid program. Starting on Thursday, the state will cover the daily birth control Opill — the first over-the-counter oral contraception approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — for its enrollees when gotten through participating pharmacies. “Family planning is such an important part of public health: being able to decide when you want to have children is an important part of having a thriving family,” Cooper said at the store. “When you think about a lot of people who are working, we want them to continue seeing doctors and having health insurance — now they’re able to do that — but sometimes, it’s difficult to get prescriptions for birth control pills. “This gives pe...