David H. Bland: Legislature wrong about CCNC

Regarding the March 11 editorial “Community Care earns honors”: It’s ironic that a national organization honors Community Care of North Carolina with a $100,000 award for excellence, when our legislature passed legislation last year to “fire” it in preference to a private provider system.

Even though national research has shown the inadequacies of the private for-profit delivery system, our legislators would rather play a shade-tree mechanic.

CCNC is the first organization to receive the Hearst Health Prize, so doesn’t it make sense to urge the legislature to reverse this shortsighted decision?

This story was originally published March 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM with the headline "David H. Bland: Legislature wrong about CCNC."