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And Matthew’s healthcare advocacy story-telling has been featured in Vox and by. He’s been quoted as a legal and healthcare expert in publications including Think Progress, Kaiser Health News, Bloomberg Law, USA Today, Pacific Standard, and Teen Vogue. Matthew writes mostly about law, medicine, bioethics, chronic illness, disability, and sex (bylines include New Statesman, Rewire, The Royal Society of Chemistry, The Stranger, and Talk Poverty). His legal practice focuses on helping patients navigate the health care system, and his activism is dedicated to advancing the recognition of health care as a human right. Matthew Cortland is a disabled, chronically ill lawyer and writer from Massachusetts. Senator’s town hall for asking him about his health care record, and reached millions of people across the country with her story while fighting to protect our health care. Laura has been blocked by President Trump on Twitter, thrown out of her (former) U.S. She is a stage 4 cancer survivor, co-chair of Health Care Voter, and founder of Voices of Health Care, a non-profit organizing adults with serious medical conditions. Laura Packard is a digital/new media and communications strategist, progressive political consultant, health care advocate, and small business owner (PowerThru), currently based in Denver. If you can't make it out to Philly, here's a direct link to the scheduled Facebook Livestream. Can improvements be implemented before 2021 at the federal level or is it all up to the states? And what about the latest lawsuit looming over everything? We’ll go beyond the slogans and into the details: How are the proposals similar and different, and what do patients, caregivers and other invested parties think.
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Reining in Big Pharma, strengthening the ACA, adding public options, “Medicare for America” or “Medicare for All”… the alphabet soup of plans can be confusing. The healthcare landscape is confusing and exciting in 2019. I'm happy to report that our panel did indeed make the final cut, and will be happening t his Friday, July 12th:įIX THE DAMN HEALTHCARE: SORTING OUT ACA 2.0, MFA, MED4AM AND MORE! A few months back I posted a request for folks to vote for a healthcare panel I was hoping to be included at this summer's Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia.