As I reflect upon my nine years as president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, there has never been a more challenging time to achieve our founder’s mission of ensuring N.C. residents with low incomes have access to quality health care and the opportunity to thrive.
Today and for the foreseeable future, the progress we’ve been fighting for is being threatened at the local, state, and national levels.
The recent draconian federal legislation that cuts more than $1 trillion from essential health programs like Medicaid health care coverage and SNAP food assistance is bad for North Carolina. Hard-working residents, rural communities, children, immigrants, and seniors — who rely on these services to go to the doctor, buy groceries, and take care of their families — will feel the deep impacts of a system that does not value their well-being.
Make no mistake — we will all suffer when these cuts take effect.
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