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Showing videos filed under: Donna Smith
Michael Moore & Donna Smith: Still Sicko
March 19, 2011"Sooner or later people are going to realize that decisions about whether one lives or dies should not be predicated on 'How much money can I make off this?'" says Michael Moore, looking back at his film Sicko with Donna Smith of National Nurses United. They both note that it's the health care workers who are leading the fight for a better system for all, even as those workers are under attack themselves.Michael Moore & Donna Smith, and Rose Ann DeMoro
March 18, 2011"Sooner or later people are going to realize that decisions about whether one lives or dies should not be predicated on 'How much money can I make off this?'" says Michael Moore, looking back at his film Sicko with Donna Smith of National Nurses United. They both note that it's the health care workers who are leading the fight for a better system for all, even as those workers are under attack themselves.Donna Smith & Wendell Potter: Fixing Health Care For Real
November 17, 2010As Republican freshmen head to Congress, many of them are riding a wave of promises to repeal "Obamacare." As Jamie Court noted on our show last week, one of the most unpopular elements of the bill is the mandate that Americans purchase private health insurance. But Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry insider, notes that that is the part of the bill that is most popular with the insurance companies that bankrolled those same Republicans.Fixing Health Care for Real & Susan Burton, CNN Hero
November 16, 2010As Republican freshmen head to Congress, many of them are riding a wave of promises to repeal "Obamacare." As Jamie Court noted on our show last week, one of the most unpopular elements of the bill is the mandate that Americans purchase private health insurance. But Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry insider, notes that that is the part of the bill that is most popular with the insurance companies that bankrolled those same Republicans.Week in Review: Women's Health Crisis Affects us All
October 24, 2009Along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Eesha Pandit of Raising Women's Voices For The Health Care We Need, and Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, Smith joined Laura on Monday to talk about the rampant inequalities in the existing health care system and to debate whether the proposed reforms in Congress go far enough.Changing the Platform: Healthcare not Warfare
August 27, 2008“We will not fix the health care crisis by selling more for profit private health insurance,” says Donna Smith, Co-Chair of the Healthcare Not Warfare Campaign and a member of Progressive Democrats of America. Though most Americans support single payer healthcare language guaranteeing healthcare for everyone was absent from the Party’s platform.Live From Denver: Is This A Game Changer?
August 26, 2008Is this a Game Changer Convention? What does it take to move a single popular proposal onto the party platform. And on the night that Hillary Clinton takes the stage -- and we mark the passage of the 19th Amendment -- we ask can women's rights really be divorced from disarmament?
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