How government used billions in public funds to transform trusted community health organizations into a frontline force for state policy. Now, with measles resurgent, the same playbook is back
In the frantic spring of 2021, a torrent of federal money began flooding the United States. Billed as a lifeline, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was a monumental financial intervention purported to pull the nation from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. For community health centers—the trusted local clinics serving the nation’s most vulnerable—it seemed like a godsend. Millions of dollars were offered to “keep their doors open.”
But this lifeline came with strings attached. An investigation into the specific terms of these federal grants and the actions of the organizations that received them reveals a story not of benign partnership, but of a systemic co-opting of civil society. The unprecedented scale of government funding effectively transformed a wide range of community health organizations from independent entities into de facto agents of the state.
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