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Donna Smith is best known as one of the documentary subjects of Michael Moore’s 2007 movie, "SiCKO." Her journalism career includes 15 regional awards from the AP Managing Editors. Donna now works as a national single-payer healthcare advocate and community organizer for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and co-chairs the Progressive Democrats of America’s national "Healthcare Not Warfare" campaign.
Donna Smith's Blogs
It’s Really Quite Simple: Do We Value Each Life in America?
The question is straightforward and simple. Do we value each life? Yes or no. No matter what Congress passes or doesn’t pass, no matter what ...
When Patients Own the System: A Progressively Financed, Single Standard of Care for All
The national legislative healthcare fix that may be passed by the 111th Congress and then signed by President Obama will do little to relieve the ...
Musicians Add to Call for Medicare for All
This man – struggling with his own healthcare mess – is using his talents in music and composition to reach out for meaningful change in ...
What Patients Deserve to Know: Even Vegas has to Publish Its Odds
Since millions of American patients face medical debt they didn’t know they’d have – and many if not most of them purchased insurance to protect ...
When the Health Reform Truth Oozes Out: And It Isn’t Just
Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of ...
A Mother’s Personal Mission: Healthcare Not Warfare
This week, the Healthcare Not Warfare campaign I help co-chair for Progressive Democrats of America becomes even more deeply personal for me. My son leaves ...
Reframe the Debate: Make Congressional Members Claim Their Dead
Ah, the politics of it all. Healthcare reform may or may not pass through the 111th Congress. President Obama may or may not be successful ...
If Terror is the Measure, It’s Healthcare War
Since I was a little child huddled in the elementary school hallway for the bomb drills to the present day when I listen to the ...
The State of My Union Isn't So Great
While the media wonks and policy geeks banter about what President Obama will or won’t say in his first State of the Union address, I’d ...
Sometimes Disaster Breathes Healthcare Words of Truth
Everybody in, nobody out. It’s the battle cry of millions of people throughout the United States who believe healthcare is a basic human right and ...
White House Believes “Liberal Angst” Over Healthcare Will Go Away
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide ...
Promises, Promises: Should This Congress and This President Learn from a Little Lip Reading?
Should Democratic members of the House vote “no” on any reform legislation that includes an excise tax on health benefits? Even if it’s now the ...
It’s Our Lives, It’s Our Money: Do Health Reform In the Sunshine
If there is nothing to protect that relates to national security, every bit of the health reform legislation debate and negotiation should be done in ...
Blood Money 2010: Healthcare in America
Ask patients who need lab work done how that all works out today in America, and then imagine where this trend is going in the ...
A Patient’s View of the Senate Christmas Healthcare Gift
So, all the great fanfare and all the king’s horses. The great and almighty U.S. Senate has spoken. I will have to buy private health ...
Senate, White House Health Reform Tucks in Gun Rights
Could we make this stuff up? We cannot get healthcare as a basic human right for one another. But we sure can make sure gun ...
Healthcare Crisis Tears at Fabric of Holiday Traditions
Our elected officials in Washington, DC, are rushing to finish their work and get home for the holidays. Many of the people who elected them ...
Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment
Sickening. Saddening. Maddening. And the stuff of future determination in the political struggle for healthcare for all in the United States. On the floor of ...
Sanders Single-Payer Healthcare Amendment to be Considered in Senate
This is it, Medicare for All, single-payer advocates. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Announced tonight that tomorrow the Senate will hear several more amendments to ...
Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare
As my grandmother used to say, “I was born on a weekend but not last weekend.” The latest insult to Americans hungry for a bit ...
Health Reform Advances 2,300 Miles Away from DC
While the healthcare reform legislative debate lumbers on in the Senate, the biggest advance for U.S. patients came early this week in Phoenix. Nurses joined ...
History in a Number: Senate Amendment 2837
The idea of a Medicare for All type, single-payer healthcare system will be heard on the Senate floor. Late last evening, Senator Bernie Sanders of ...
Before You Carve that Turkey: All In for Bernie Sanders
Those millions of us who support a Medicare for All, single-payer, reform for the healthcare crisis in this nation have some work to do over ...
Dickens Revisited, Circa 2009, Healthcare USA
Some Americans will schlep into a local theater to check out Disney’s latest 3-D version of “A Christmas Carol.” They’ll gather up the kids and ...
I'll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They’ve Got
Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It’s your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we’ve got when ...
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