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Statement on the Supreme Court’s ACA Decision

June 25, 2015 by George Reed, Former Executive Director

The North Carolina Council of Churches celebrates today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act.  For decades, the Council has supported universal health care, and while the current version of Obamacare does not reach that ultimate goal, it has proved to be a crucial step forward.

We are grateful to the justices of the Supreme Court who have upheld the subsidy guaranteeing 6.4 million Americans — more than 450,000 in North Carolina — continued access to care.

Meanwhile, some states, including our own, have chosen to fall even farther behind in providing life-improving, life-prolonging, life-saving care for their citizens because of the refusal to expand Medicaid under the ACA. Too many North Carolinians continue to suffer, and the nation’s highest court has once again reinforced that to be utterly unnecessary.

As believers in a faith that calls on us to care for the most vulnerable, as followers of one called the Great Physician, let us now turn our attention to the expansion of Medicaid, calling on our political leaders to put aside partisan folly so that North Carolinians who remain in need can enjoy basic health care.

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About George Reed, Former Executive Director

As I had hoped, I have spent more time reading books in my retirement. One recent read was Jon Meacham’s splendid biography of Thomas Jefferson. I resonated with something TJ wrote in a letter shortly after leaving the White House in 1809: “I am here [at Monticello] enjoying the ineffable luxury of being owner of my own time.” I can’t say that I am complete owner of my time, but I am really enjoying not being controlled by clock and calendar. Well, except when there’s a deadline for Raleigh Report.

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