Along with being a living legend, NBA star Michael Jordan is a well-known philanthropist, contributing to all types of causes, not just left- or right-leaning ones. Jordan also tends to be media shy, preferring to do his good deeds in secret (others could take a lesson from him). However, at an opening of one of the Wilmington, North Carolina, clinics which Jordan funded, he actually appeared on camera and gave an exclusive to People Magazine about it.
Michael Jordan celebrated the opening of a new health clinic in his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina and PEOPLE has an exclusive photo of the basketball legend at the event.
Jordan, 61, and Novant Health teamed up to open a third clinic, the Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic on Greenfield St. in Wilmington, to bring “much-needed comprehensive primary care services,” according to a release.
The clinic will include medical opportunities for “individuals who are uninsured or underinsured,” a cause close to the former NBA star’s heart.
“Everyone is worthy of access to quality health care, no matter where you live or if you have insurance,” Jordan said in a release, adding that he is “truly inspired by the many powerful stories of people who are now thriving thanks to the support of our Charlotte medical clinics.”
Concrete data shows that the ways to mitigate health care costs are greater competition among health care providers, price reform and transparency, and incorporation of more holistic health approaches to treating a person as a whole human and not as unrelated parts (heart, lungs, kidneys, feet, etc.). Instead of playing a financial and quantitative numbers game of farming through patients like cattle, health care providers should focus on reducing the incidences of chronic metabolic illness, along with mitigating urgent and catastrophic care.
Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. often points to our poor American diets and our over dependence on pharmacology as key reasons why we are metabolically unwell, but it is also our inability to build consistent health habits and do routine screenings which factor into this equation. All of these aspects are where the majority of corporate health care continues to fail, particularly to the degree it continues to align with intrusive government.
Novant Health appears to be trying a new model of actual people and patient care minus the corporate bureaucracy and government overreach. They’re partnership with Jordan is helping to make this happen.
Jordan, whose $10 million donation to Novant Health allowed for two additional Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinics to be built in Wilmington, added, “I am confident Novant Health’s new clinic will positively impact individuals and families throughout Wilmington,” and said he’s ”profoundly grateful to help make this day happen for my hometown.”
A video from this appearance is just now making the rounds.
Michael Jordan tears up at clinic opening in Wilmington, NC
Greatest basketball player of all time but also a great human. pic.twitter.com/3kvcl89YBo
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This was way back in May. Why is it just now appearing on the internet radar? Possibly because of the evil murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly wrought by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. The legacy media promotes this type of carnage, and stories about the evils of corporate health insurance, while glorifying the death of a husband and father as a legitimate price to pay for corporate and government failures.
Meanwhile, they ignore this sterling example of Jordan, a private citizen, partnering with health care providers to disrupt the system and transform the landscape. This type of philanthropy, not just from Jordan, but countless citizens and medical professionals who we seldom hear about, needs to be placed at the forefront of the coverage surrounding our broken health care system and the reform needed on all fronts.
