The funding freeze endangered community health centers. That’s bad for all of us.

This article was originally published on the Boston Globe.

If one of us is unwell, we are all unwell.

That simple sentiment has been one of the guiding principles for community health centers for 60 years, ever since the first two were started in Dorchester and Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in 1965. These nonprofit, community-driven organizations — there are now some 16,000 treatment sites across the country — were founded to address the lack of access to basic health care for our most vulnerable. Over the decades, they have become a pillar of our health care system, doing work that benefits all of us, whether we receive care from them or not….

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