OpEdNews - Article: Let's Drop Healthcare Access on One Another, Not Bombs

OpEdNews - Article: Let's Drop Healthcare Access on One Another, Not Bombs

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About Donna Smith:
Healthcare reform activist; Appeared in Michael Moore's SiCKO; Founder, American Patients United;
National Co-chair, PDA (Progressive Democrats of America)Healthcare Not Warfare campaign; Community organizer, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.
Married to Larry Smith, 33 years; mother of six and grandmother to 14.
Graduate, Colorado College, 1985.
Writing is my passion -- mostly political pieces, sometimes human interest.
I belive healthcare is a basic human right. I believe that the American people are champions of basic human rights and that we will win universal healthcare in my lifetime.
My political hero was and is Sen. Tom Daschle (former U.S. Senate majority leader from South Dakota) because of his personal decency to me when I was a constituent. Though I have not always agreed completely with him, and he has made the hugest mistake, he never looked down his nose at any person of lesser station in life. I wish he had fully paid his taxes and that we were engaged together in the fight for healthcare for all.
I was born and raised in suburban Chicago, but have lived in the western U.S, for most of my adult life until returning to Chicago in February 2008 to work for CNA/NNOC. Now I am relocating to Washington, DC, to work more directly on healthcare reform issues.

ThinkProgress » Proposed South Carolina Gun Bill Would Allow For Guns In Churches, Day-Care Centers

ThinkProgress » Proposed South Carolina Gun Bill Would Allow For Guns In Churches, Day-Care Centers

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The Tea Party's Latest Scheme to Kill Health Reform | Mother Jones

The Tea Party's Latest Scheme to Kill Health Reform | Mother Jones

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A look at the tea party's latest grand scheme to kneecap health care reform. Shocker, I know: http://bit.ly/gUufG8

"The tea party has a new plan to attack health care reform. While some conservative activists are still fighting to get the law defunded and eventually repealed, others are organizing behind a radical, states'-rights proposal that would go beyond merely derailing health reform. Egged on by tea partiers, at least a dozen states are now contemplating legislation that supporters believe would allow them to seize control of and administer virtually all federal health care programs operating in their states and exempt them from the requirements of the health care law. That includes Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly on which a sizable number of tea partiers rely."