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Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States
Insider Richard Kirsch offers a vivid, first-person account of how health care reform came to be.
This first-person account brings readers inside the biggest and most consequential issue campaign in American history. Fighting for Our Health recounts how a reform campaign led by grassroots organizers played a crucial role in President Obama’s signing historic health reform legislation in March of 2010—defeating the tea partiers, Republican Party, health insurance industry, and the US Chamber of Commerce. The action takes place inside the Beltway—the White House, Congressional anterooms, and the streets of DC—and at hundreds of town meetings, demonstrations, and confrontations in places like Danville, Virginia and Lincoln, Nebraska.
This first-person account brings readers inside the biggest and most consequential issue campaign in American history. Fighting for Our Health recounts how a reform campaign led by grassroots organizers played a crucial role in President Obama’s signing historic health reform legislation in March of 2010—defeating the tea partiers, Republican Party, health insurance industry, and the US Chamber of Commerce. The action takes place inside the Beltway—the White House, Congressional anterooms, and the streets of DC—and at hundreds of town meetings, demonstrations, and confrontations in places like Danville, Virginia and Lincoln, Nebraska.
416 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2012
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About the author
Richard Kirsch
24 books4 followersRichard has two grown children and resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He continues to daily marry Linda, his bride of 32+ years. His life’s journey has taken him from his hometown Sheboygan, Wisconsin to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to Minneapolis, Minnesota, including some foreign travel before settling down in Milwaukee. Drawing from imagination and life experience, Richard writes for those who enjoy reading science fiction about real places.
I've just had my first novel published. It is a sci-fi/fantasy adventure entitled: Pine Woods. I hope this is the first of a series. All the stories begin with places my sister, cousin and I went on our bicycles in 1950s Sheboygan, Wisconsin. With the help of an 8,000-year-old brother and sister, Aralic and Benowin, we need to save the planet from one disaster or another in each of the stories.
I enjoy writing and do so almost daily for a few hours.
I've just had my first novel published. It is a sci-fi/fantasy adventure entitled: Pine Woods. I hope this is the first of a series. All the stories begin with places my sister, cousin and I went on our bicycles in 1950s Sheboygan, Wisconsin. With the help of an 8,000-year-old brother and sister, Aralic and Benowin, we need to save the planet from one disaster or another in each of the stories.
I enjoy writing and do so almost daily for a few hours.
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January 30, 2013
As an organizer, it was fascinating to read about a campaign I was peripherally involved in. Highly engaging and an excellent primer on the story of how we got to a public option healthcare system in the US.
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