Posts Tagged ‘Donna Smith’
Report on Medicare’s 44th Birthday, July 30, 2009
Over one thousand single-payer activists descended on Capitol Hill on July 30th, 2009 to celebrate Medicare’s 44th Birthday as concurrent actions planned across the country and on the Hill culminated to pay great tribute to the nation’s most popular social program that is indeed the largest single-payer in the country of hospitals and doctors. The…
Read MoreCNA’s Donna Smith, National Organization of Women’s 2009 Woman of Action
From blog.aflcio.org – Donna Smith, a community organizer and legislative representative for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), was recently honored as the National Organization for Women’s (NOW’s) 2009 Woman of Action. Smith first came to the public’s attention in Michael Moore’s 2007 movie, “SICKO.” Despite having health insurance and even a health…
Read MoreLabCorp Denies Blood Test for Heart Attack Patient Due to $7 Debt
By Donna Smith OK, if this wasn’t personal enough just yet for me, it just got a whole lot more so. And if you think for one instant that in this nation at this point in history and with this popularly elected President and Democratic Congress you will be treated for a heart attack simply…
Read MoreWell, Well… Going to Healthcare Hell
By Donna Smith – We’ve learned some remarkable things over the past few weeks about healthcare reform in these United States. Remarkable, tragic, sad, disgusting and unacceptable truths about what we’ve put up with for decades and what we are about to see written into law unless we rise up. It was Jesus Christ who…
Read MoreMiddle Class Healthcare Reform? Bend Over…
By Donna Smith – It’s coming. You and me and every middle class, working person in this nation is about to start handing over more and more of their hard earned cash to the private insurance industry, courtesy of our own elected members of Congress and our very popular President. Fire up those Treasury Department…
Read MoreThere’s No Place Like Home for The Holidays, Until There is No Home
Donna Smith’s holiday message is featured on the front page of Common Dreams today. It is a message to all of us as we struggle to include health care for all as the basis of any economic recovery package: A little box arrived from Chicago last week to my temporary digs here in Washington, DC. Inside…
Read MoreDonna Smith at Binghamton Road Show
Essential Dissent brings us video from Donna Smith’s Road Show in Binghamton, NY.
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