Health Care Reform: How Ordinary Citizens can Lead the Way

Lauren Reichelt reports for the ePluribus Media Journal about Eve Gittleson’s "Time for Action: How the Netroots Can Lead on Healthcare Reform" panel held at the NetRoots Nation conference in Austin, Texas. The panel was moving, informative, thought-provoking and contentious. Gittleson provided something for everyone, drawing the audience into the timely debate. Read her report on what the five speakers said about their experiences with our failing health care system: a surgeon who fights for his patients' lives; a grieving mother whose daughter was denied a transplant by Cigna; a city attorney who is prosecuting insurance companies for fraud; a nurse-activist; and a progressive blogger. All agreed on one point: Health Care in America is broken and must be fixed.