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Justice Circle (Raleigh, NC—January 13, 2026) Senior Health Policy Advocate Rebecca Cerese and NC Senator Natalie Murdock joined PBS NC’s Black Issues Forum to discuss all things related to health care and health policy, just days after the US House passed legislation to extend the Affordable Care Act premium enhanced tax subsidies. This extension has not yet been passed by the US Senate, which means North Carolinians who rely on these subsidies to pay for health insurance premiums remain in limbo as the January 15 deadline for open enrollment looms.
“We have the corporatization of healthcare, and we have a profit-centered healthcare system. We are an outlier in the developed world. If profit is at the center, there’s a perverse financial incentive to deny people care or to jack up prices on things like monthly premiums. These are, for the most part, for-profit insurance companies … that are looking to make a profit. When you have profit at the center instead of patient care, we’re not actually having the right priorities,” Cerese said.
Watch Rebecca talk more how these ACA tax subsidies lower the cost of health insurance for 900,000 North Carolinians, what’s driving the costs of healthcare higher, benefits of a single-payer health care system, and the free to low-cost resources available right now in the clip here.