The escalating healthcare crisis in the United States continues to endanger the lives of underserved communities causing perpetual health disparities and inequities, excessive morbidity and mortality, premature deaths, and precluding us from maximizing our physical and mental potential.  Private equity firms, pharmaceutical corporations, private health insurance companies, and the food industrial complex, in conjunction with regressive politicians and government institutions, entrench healthcare and nutrition policies that prioritize profit over people and intentionally increase the prevalence and incidence of life-threatening diseases in underserved communities – especially cardiovascular and heart diseases.

Quality healthcare is a basic human right that must be afforded to everyone as a nationally-funded universal resource independent of socioeconomic or citizenship status