Reigning UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, promised a “huge announcement” on Thursday, leading fight fans to speculate that “Bones” was (finally) booked to unify the division straps against current interim titleholder, Tom Aspinall.
Yeah, no.
Instead, Jones revealed his partnership with Power to the Patients, a non-profit campaign “fighting for a more honest, affordable, and accessible healthcare system through real prices and transparency,” according to its social channels.
“While this may not be a traditional fight for me, it’s obvious that too many Americans are being hurt and forced into medical debt or bankruptcy by a Healthcare System so greedy that hospitals and insurers hide their actual prices so they can charge us whatever they want,” Jones wrote in a statement.
“Their ‘estimates’ are bullsh*t and the corporate greed in American healthcare is breaking people and families across the United States,” Jones continued. “I’ve seen it countless times in my own community where I have friends, family, and neighbors who are afraid to even get the care they need because the entire system, without real prices upfront, is dishonest and rigged for corporate profit. Time to hold these healthcare bullies accountable. Power to the people. Power to the Patients.”
More on this in just a bit.
This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
