The NMA framed healthcare as a human right bound to racial equality.

Evidence

But this time, the NMA delivered a countermessage of its own: healthcare was a basic human right, inextricably bound to racial equality. “Man is such a slow learner,” NMA president William Montague Cobb said of the fight. “But let us recognize our mistakes and remedy them, without having to repeat the historical process again and again and again.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1176

Categorization

• XREF: The NMA-vs-AMA split over nationalized healthcare is a concrete case study in how intra-professional organizations diverged along racial lines over the same policy question.