Citizens Medical
'More than half of the world’s population is still not covered by essential health services. Furthermore, two billion people face severe financial hardship when paying out-of-pocket for the services and products they need.'
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- United Nations & World Bank, Universal Healthcare Coverage Global Monitoring Report, 2023
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At Citizens Medical, we believe that the modern public discourse on health and the policy institutions that oversee it are squarely responsible for the dire UN statistics above. We believe that the continued politicization, economization and weaponization of healthcare are preventing billions of people everywhere from seeing a doctor.
​Our objective is to remove those variables from human health.
In a world where politicians routinely defund public health services in favor of private interests, and where bureaucrats turn chronic illness and genetic disabilities into a few lines on an Excel spreadsheet, there is an overriding need to change the narrative.
Year after year, we watch Western media misrepresenting Ebola outbreaks in Africa [2], and UK GPs refusing to register migrants for vaccinations [3]. We watch pregnant women in distress being turned away from hospital emergency rooms in the US because of current state abortion bans after the fall of Roe v. Wade [4]. And we watch healthcare infrastructure and medical workers being directly targeted in Middle East conflicts [5][6].
But as horrifying as these events are, we believe they are mere symptoms of an ongoing culture of privilege, ideological myopia and legal obstacles surrounding healthcare.
Human health is not a matter of borders or budgets or bombs. It is not subject to political or private interests. And it is not a tool to weaponize in increasingly absurd election cycles and increasingly deadly conflicts.
Health is one of our most important natural responsibilities. It is a responsibility to ourselves, to each other and to our communities. It is an obligation of both the patient and the provider, the individual and the society.
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At Citizens Medical, we want to prioritize the patient, not the politics, the bureaucrats or the budgets. We want to remove the burden from taxpayers (and their sincere concerns) and build free, independent, voluntarily funded care models that can begin to address the gap in coverage as revealed in those UN statistics.
We also want to rapidly expand 'sanctuary' care options for vulnerable people, away from the eyes of ideologically-driven immigration policies. This would encourage them to come forward earlier for preventative care and improve health outcomes for everyone in the society.
We believe that sometimes it is as simple as covering someone's bills or providing a safe primary care environment for anyone who needs it. At Citizens Medical, that is our intention.
No one should be afraid to see a doctor.
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We hope you will join us.​
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2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6936462/
4. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/pregnant-women-denied-care-us-hospitals
6. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145317
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