Hill November 16, 2022
Michelle A. Williams, opinion contributor

Public health was on the ballot last week — and it won.

I’m not talking about specific candidates, as important as those races are. I’m talking about the ethos of public health — the principle that health is a fundamental human right and the understanding that we must look out for one another, to think not just about our own well-being, but about the public good.

That ethos has been in retreat for the past two years, beaten back by the forces proclaiming that individual freedom trumps all. In one of many low points, protestors in Los Angeles for requiring masks to protect their patients, many of whom had weakened immune systems as a result of chemotherapy and...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID
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