Health care professionals and patients alike suffer from a corporate profit-driven U.S. medical industry, and government policies that prioritize profiteers’ financial speculations while our lives and well-being hang in the balance.

Out of 11 industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks last for health care quality and access. The U.S. spends over $5 trillion a year on health care, but our population is sicker than ever. The U.S. was ranked in 2022 as having only the 49th highest life expectancy when compared to other nations. These statistics demonstrate a disease management industry disguised as a healthcare system.

Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals (CCMP) is an entirely volunteer, independent membership association of health professionals, united with allies to fight for comprehensive health care for underinsured and uninsured low-income workers. CCMP has always refused government funding or money with strings attached. Free-of-charge preventive healthcare benefit programs are organized by CCMP members and volunteers.

CCMP’s definition of comprehensive health care developed directly from analysis of the economic determinants of poor health and the inadequacy of extant government health services encountered as CCMP volunteers worked with benefit program recipients from associations of low-income workers as well as other medically uninsured workers to provide them access to preventive health care services.

CCMP defines comprehensive health care as the right of low-income workers, not just to see the doctor, but to possess everything a person needs to attain and maintain good health. That includes decent housing, nutrition, transportation to and from the doctor’s office, all necessary follow-up from a doctor’s visit and fighting to overcome any political or economic obstacles to good health, including achieving jobs with living wages. CCMP’s volunteers organize communities to defeat the policies harming the health of the people and the planet.