Saturday, July 11, 2009

Bill Moyers Journal: CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION'S DONNA SMITH

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION'S DONNA SMITH
Bill Moyers Journal

Donna Smith and her colleagues have been taking their quest for health care reform to Congress — and to the streets. Donna Smith is best known for her major role in Michael Moore's 2007 movie, SiCKO. Moore documented her return to Denver in 2006 when she and her husband Larry were forced to move into their daughter's basement. Though they were fully insured, the Smiths lost everything they had following major illnesses and surgeries. Today, Donna Smith works as a community organizer and legislative advocate for the California Nurses Association, whose 85,000 members across the country were early champions of a single-payer program.

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