To understand why Dr. Ala Stanford is running to become the next U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania’s Third Congressional District, look no further than the Black Doctors Consortium at 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia.
Inside the nationally recognized community health facility Stanford founded to serve the surrounding low-income neighborhoods, she made the case that Capitol Hill needs more people who have a visceral understanding of what their constituents experience – and what they need.
“You need people who understand the people they’re fighting for,” Stanford told City & State in a sit-down interview. “The people making laws about our health care (and) subsidies have nothing to do with the people they’re representing, so they don’t know anyone that is feeling the wrath of what they’re doing.”…