Outgoing DHHS Sec. Kody Kinsley on NC’s health and accomplishments from his three years at the helm

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Kody Kinsley, outgoing secretary of the NC Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo: DHHS)

Gov. Roy Cooper’s second four-year term as our state’s chief executive has come to a close, and if there’s one accomplishment from that period that stands out above all others it was his tireless and ultimately successful campaign to expand the state’s Medicaid program – a move that has saved and will continue to save, quite literally, thousands of lives.

Of course, the work to secure Medicaid expansion and its successful implementation was far more than a one-person job. It took hundreds of committed and hardworking state employees to make it happen and the person in charge of that effort on a day-to-day basis was the state’s outgoing Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kody Kinsley.

Kinsley served as HHS secretary for the final three years of Cooper’s term, and as NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with him as he prepared leave office, while he’s enormously satisfied with how Medicaid expansion has gone, he’s also proud of some other accomplishments that will make life better for millions of our state’s most vulnerable residents.

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