Health and Human Services Secretary Lanier Cansler is leaving Gov. Beverly Perdue's Cabinet after three years running a department in charge of North Carolina's health programs.
Perdue announced late Friday that Cansler would step down as secretary and head a new commission the governor is assembling on affordable health care in the state.
The governor's senior policy adviser - Al Delia - will become acting HHS secretary early next month.
Cansler was a Republican in a Democratic administration who managed a department that received nearly one-quarter of the state's budget to run Medicaid, mental health facilities and other health programs.
His department had taken heat recently from Republican legislators for managing the Medicaid program and costs related to a new claims processing system.
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