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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
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 ...
Nataline Keeps Bending the Arc of Healthcare Justice
"Someday, my story will be your story," Gregor Sarkisyan, father of the late Nataline Sarkisyan, 17, who died December 20, 2007, as CIGNA denied her ...
Single Payer State Option Threatened in House
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the healthcare bill she plans to bring to the floor Thursday, will it still have the amendment that allows ...
TARP-Loving Joe Loves Bailing Out Banks but Not Providing Healthcare
Are we to believe Senator Joe Lieberman objects to a public health insurance plan because he's a raging believer in the free market or in ...
Why Isn't 122 Dead Americans Every Day a National Health Emergency?
Why does H1N1 call for a Presidential designation as a national emergency while the preventable deaths of 45,000 Americans every year (122 every day) is ...
Weiner’s Amendment Breathes 45,000 Lives into H.R. 3200
Wow. Things are getting pretty tense out in the trenches where we’ve all seen Wall Street bailouts and bulging unemployment while Congress inches forward on ...
Greed Claims Another American Mother and Child. Had Enough?
Jenny Fritts was 24 years old. Jenny lived with her husband Sean for the past five years, and together they had a little girl named ...
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