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GUEST: Donna Smith, Communications Specialist for California Nurses Association (CNA) and the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) as well as the national co-chair for the Healthcare Not Warfare campaign of Progressive Democrats of America<\/em><\/p>\n For more information visit www.pdamerica.org<\/a> and www.guaranteedhealthcare.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program According to a new report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, about 11.4 million Americans with chronic illnesses like heart disease, diabetes or asthma lack health insurance. Such Americans either delay or forego much-needed medical care. The health care crisis in America affects everyone in the middle class and below, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"healthcare\"](\"\/home\/graphics\/healthcare.JPG\")
<\/a>According to a new report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, about 11.4 million Americans with chronic illnesses like heart disease, diabetes or asthma lack health insurance. Such Americans either delay or forego much-needed medical care. The health care crisis in America affects everyone in the middle class and below, and yet, how often is it a deciding factor in electoral politics? Well last week the Democratic Party agreed to a platform that surprisingly included “guaranteed health care for all.” This is actually quite different from the term “universal health coverage.” In fact the language specifies that everybody is to be included and no one is to be left out, a concept that is much closer to a single-payer system. Given that even progressive groups like ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and Campaign for America’s Future have set their sights lower by pushing for affordable healthcare for all, instead of a Medicare style, single-payer system, how is it that one of the two major parties has now committed to fight for healthcare for all Americans? One woman who was at the DNC platform meeting last weekend tells us the story. <\/p>\n